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High-tech geological studies have revealed a network of ancient river systems buried hundreds of metres beneath arid regions in Western Australia.

Published on: GreenCareer

Environmental groups want a series of water extraction licences in Alice Springs to be withdrawn, arguing that the use of extra flows from the Mereenie aquifer could the water supply.

Published on: GreenCareer

Researchers from over 20 international institutions have announced a joint initiative to accelerate the search for an effective HIV vaccine.

Published on: HealthCareer

Ancient Australian knowledge could be on the menu in the next generation of space-food.

Published on: GreenCareer

The Road Transport Association (RTA) in South Australia says the trucking industry is being overcharged millions of dollars in tax every year.

Published on: LogisticsCareer

Metgasco has accepted a NSW Government offer to buy back its CSG licences in the Northern Rivers region.

Published on: GreenCareer

Legal experts say Australian need proper protection against lemons – cars that seem fine but need multiple repairs.

Published on: LogisticsCareer

Five Western Australian businesses and projects have been praised for their efforts to reduce the risk of work-related injury and disease.

Published on: LogisticsCareer

Legal action is being taken after a seawall collapsed last year and flooded an iron mine on Koolan Island.

Published on: EngineeringCareer

West Australian Government inspectors are looking into five separate fires involving trucks at a single mine site.

Published on: LogisticsCareer

Researchers have made a robot out of DNA that could one day wander the body hunting for cancer.

Published on: EngineeringCareer

Australian scientists have discovered a potential new treatment for tuberculosis, a disease rapidly gaining resistance against current medical therapies.

Published on: HealthCareer

Local engineers have put together an outline for what could one day be a fully-functioning quantum computer processor.

Published on: EngineeringCareer

Tasmania’s naturally cool climate has grabbed the attention of global tech firms, who say it could be the perfect site for large data-centres.

Published on: EngineeringCareer

Doctors have been ordered to repay more than $4 million worth of benefits, following a report into rampant Medicare rorting.

Published on: HealthCareer

West Australian research­ers are using stem cells and 3D-printers to regrow parts of patients’ skulls.

Published on: EngineeringCareer

West Australian Premier Colin Barnett has thrown in the towel on stage two of the controversial Perth Freight Link project.

Published on: TradesCareer

The National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) is officially behind schedule for its assessment of BP’s plan to drill oil exploration wells in the Great Australian Bight.

Published on: GreenCareer

The Australian Energy Regulator (AER) has recommended Queensland power companies Energex and Ergon charge households $6.6 billion and $6.3 billion respectively between 2015 and 2020.

Published on: GovernmentCareer - State

China says it will build the world's largest super-collider in 2020, in an effort to understand more about the Higgs boson.

Published on: EngineeringCareer

Tasmania's Energy Minister Matthew Groom says Hydro Tasmania has defied “doom and gloom” predictions to post a big before-tax profit.

Published on: TradesCareer

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For the last few weeks we have been bogged down in the very Earthly matters of royalty, budgets, politics, humanity and celebrity - all good prompts to look away, up into the infinite. 

Health authorities, politicians and scientists have been slowly introducing the world to the concept of ‘One Health’ - an all-inclusive approach to health that extends from the human body right through the global environment. 

This year’s Nobel Prizes honour discoveries that unwind our notion of truth, our understanding of ourselves and the human story, the complexities of cells and the very basics of the universe. 

XENOTRANSPLANTATION - sounds like something that would happen to an ill-fated crew member in Star Trek, but it is also a technical term for using non-human parts to treat or enhance our own bodies. 

Even though many of us have been forced indoors, the COVID-19 crisis is eroding our privacy.

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