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The difference between Weather and Climate

Adilah AhmadMay 29, 2019

“Weather is your mood, climate is your personality” J. Marshall Shepherd. Weather Weather can be described as a short term, day-to-day state of our atmosphe...

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Brr, it’s cold in here: The science behind brain freeze

Ailish DelaneyMay 28, 2019

Everyone knows the feeling when you eat ice cream too quickly or slurp down too much of a slushy in one go—it’s practically a rite of summer. That searing sensa...

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Watch ‘2040’ to discover that our planet’s future isn’t so screwed after all

Kellie BalaamMay 21, 2019

Imagine a world powered by solar energy and transported by driverless vehicles, and where agriculture is transformed via regenerative farming and seaweed farms....

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Do we see the same colour?

Kenith PngMay 20, 2019

Colour, it seems, is all around us. From the rich warm hues of a local sunset to the amber traffic light you sped through on the way to class. We don’t often...

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Heart Week (28 April–4 May): Looking after your ticker

Adilah AhmadApril 27, 2019

The Heart Foundation’s Heart Week 2019 has a focus on... yep, you guessed it, heart health! And what we can do to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD...

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What do kimchi and kombucha have in common?

Adilah AhmadApril 22, 2019

Chances are, if you’ve ever been to a Korean BBQ with your mates, you’ve probably been served Kimchi. Kimchi is a traditional South Korean side dish made from s...

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Shisha and vaping: Are they safer than smoking traditional cigarettes?

Adilah AhmadApril 6, 2019

According to the Australian Bureau of statistics, in 2014–15, 14.5 per cent of adults over 18 years old were smoking daily (2.6 million adults); a decrease fr...

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Phones: Friends in our Pockets, or Sources of Anxiety?

Maria Cristina De VicenteMarch 27, 2019

It is too early on a Monday morning and the train is a sea of bowed heads and hunched shoulders. The automated voice instructing the doors to shut echoes into t...

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International Women’s Day: Honouring the Legacy of Henrietta Lacks

Adilah AhmadMarch 6, 2019

The year was 1951, a young African American woman named Henrietta Lacks was dying from cervical cancer. In an operating room, surgeons harvested cells from h...

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The woman taking a part of Australia to Mars

Maria Cristina De VicenteMarch 4, 2019

The last 200 years have been socially and technologically revolutionary. They brought us the internet, the personal computer, airplanes, rockets, electric light...

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