science
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What Exactly Is the Winter Solstice, and When Is It Coming to Australia?
The winter solstice is coming up but what does that actually mean? Here’s everything you need to know about the solstice in Australia.
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Astronomers Found a Planet That Should Not Exist
As part of an international team of astronomers, we studied a star that looks much like our Sun will in billions of years’ time, and found it has a planet which by all rights it should have devoured.
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How Turmeric Actually Measures Up to All Those Health Claims
Turmeric has been used by humans for more than 4,000 years. As well as cooking and cosmetics, it’s been a staple of the traditional medicine practice of Ayurveda, used to treat a variety of conditions from arthritis to wind.
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Turns Out the Shape of Our Brain Is More Important Than Its Wiring
The human brain is made up of around 86 billion neurons, linked by trillions of connections. For decades, scientists have believed that we need to map this intricate connectivity in detail to understand how the structured patterns of activity defining our thoughts, feelings and behaviour emerge. Our new study, published in Nature, challenges this view.…