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If humans are ever to wield robotic limbs, we will need to know what they are feeling. New research has taken the first steps toward that ability.

Published on: EngineeringCareer

Scientists in North Queensland are reporting remarkable success in attempts to reduce the amount of agricultural chemical run-off to the Great Barrier Reef.

Published on: GreenCareer

An Australian research group has been empowering women to a prosperous future through education and training all over the planet.

Published on: GreenCareer

A workplace dispute is unfolding after budget cuts led to the sacking of a senior public servant in South Australia.

Published on: ExecutiveCareer

The former boss of the Health Services Union has pleaded guilty to dozens of crimes relating to dodgy dealings spanning years.

Published on: TradesCareer

A professor from Flinders University has written about Australia’s strong history of multiculturalism, saying that it is part of the national tradition and should be treated as such.

Published on: EducationCareer

The person in charge of water in the new Federal Government has attended meetings with irrigators, who are concerned that changes to water rights and protocols could leave them inundated, rather than irrigated.

Published on: WaterCareer

As you may or may not have noticed, icicles have ripples of exactly the same wavelength no matter how big they get. Scientists are now trying to work out why.

Published on: WaterCareer

A protracted legal battle between the Victorian Government and the builder of a billion dollar desalination plant has been resolved.

Published on: WaterCareer

A new study has taken up the ambitious task of predicting a full chain of events - beginning with our current chemical impact on the ocean - to forecast the state of the sea in a hundred years from now.

Published on: GreenCareer

Australia is set for a tempestuous end-of-year, with forecasts predicting an 11-cyclone season.

Published on: GreenCareer

Australians will have to put aside their understandable scepticism and embrace the benefits of recycled water, a recent report has told.

Published on: GreenCareer

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has released draft legislation to repeal the Carbon Tax, including the abolishment of the Climate Change Authority, Clean Energy Act, and other measures designed to combat pollution.

Published on: GreenCareer

Woolworths is under more pressure to sign on to a voluntary safety accord as more workers die in India making products for the rest of the world.

Published on: TradesCareer

An exhibition in London has seen a glimpse of either the future of prosthetics – or the first stages of a cut-price, plastic Terminator.

Published on: EngineeringCareer

A breakthrough at the Australian National University’s School of Chemistry could open a path for further size reductions in some of the world’s smallest electronics.

Published on: EngineeringCareer

Australian scientists have started a countdown to create one of the most precise atomic clocks yet, and then fire it into space.

Published on: EngineeringCareer

A mining billionaire has made the biggest single philanthropic donation in Australian history – giving $65 million to higher education in Western Australia.

Published on: EducationCareer

Lobbyists for the gas resource industry are pushing the Federal Government expand offshore and coal seam projects to avoid a predicted shortage in supply.

Published on: GreenCareer

The second week of Safe Work Australia Month has coincided with National Mental Health Week, causing organisers to remind all workers that mental health and safety is a workplace issue as well.

Published on: HealthCareer

VicRoads has allowed nearly a hundred Cootes Transport trucks to operate on Victorian roads, after dozens were sidelined over safety breaches.

Published on: LogisticsCareer

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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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