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In the new Disney Pixar movie Lightyear, time gets bendy. Is time travel real, or just science fiction?
Image: Disney/PixarSpoiler alert: this article explains a key plot point, but we don’t give away anything you won’t see in trailers.At the beginning...
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Is there evidence aliens have visited Earth? Here’s what’s come out of US congress hearings on ‘unidentified aerial phenomena’
Image: JIM LO SCALZO/EPAThe United States Congress recently held a hearing into US government information pertaining to “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAPs).The last investigation of this kind...
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Is there such a thing as the perfect alarm tone? We think so (and this is what it might sound like)
Image: Miriam Alonso PexelsWith the return to office work – and no longer being able to roll out of bed and straight into a...
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Explainer: what is thunder?
Image: Lightning over Adelaide airport, March 2013. Credit: Rowland BeardsellIt is a dark and stormy night, and you see a spectacular flash of light...
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Moths eating your clothes? It’s actually their hungry little caterpillars – here’s how to get rid of them
Image: ShutterstockHave you opened your post-lockdown wardrobe, only to discover some of your beautiful summer clothes have holes in them? You’re probably blaming clothes...
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Slip, slop, slurp! The surprising science of sunscreen, sand and ice cream
Image: ShutterstockAhh, summer at the beach! The sun on your face, sand between your toes, an ice cream in your hand.For scientists young and...
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Novel teaching tech earns UniSA scientist Tall Poppy award
A novel approach to digital data and an excellence in learning analytics has secured UniSA's Dr Vitomir Kovanović a Young Tall Poppy Science Award...
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Declassified Cold War code-breaking manual has lessons for solving ‘impossible’ puzzles
Picture: NSAThe United States National Security Agency — the country’s premier signals intelligence organisation — recently declassified a Cold War-era document about code-breaking.The 1977 book, written...
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New warp drive research dashes faster than light travel dreams – but reveals stranger possibilities
Image: ShuttlestockIn 1994, physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a radical technology that would allow faster than light travel: the warp drive, a hypothetical way to skirt...
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From fireballs in the sky to a shark in the stars: the astronomical artistry of Segar Passi
Picture: Elsie Passi, Author providedWhen Uncle Segar Passi watches the position of the setting Sun from his front patio, he notes its location and...
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