science
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Why Haven’t I Had COVID Yet?
Throughout the pandemic, Australia has recorded 10.4 million cases of COVID-19, with the majority occurring this year. This is without doubt an underestimate, as not everyone tests for COVID-19 or reports their positive results. The latest survey of donor blood looked at the proportion of people who had antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes…
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What Can We Learn From All the Floods, Here And Overseas?
“We are […] sandbagging the state”, New South Wales Emergency Services Minister Steph Cooke declared on Saturday. And so we endure the third La Niña season with this waiting-for-the-next-disaster attitude. After heavy rain and repeated floods across Australia’s eastern states over the past three years, it’s worth considering what we have and haven’t learned. A…
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What Exactly Does It Mean to ‘Die of Old Age’?
Queen Elizabeth’s newly released death certificate contains just two curious words under her cause of death – old age. We might talk about people dying of old age in everyday speech. But who actually dies of old age, medically speaking, in the 21st century? Such a vague cause of death not only raises questions about…
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Gaze Into the Deepest View Yet of Our Universe: Webb’s First Full-Colour Image Is Here
NASA officials, President Biden, and Vice President Kamala Harris have revealed the first full-colour image from the Webb Space Telescope: a breathtaking shot of deep space stretching back over 13 billion years, the first in a set of images to be released this week of the telescope’s first cosmic targets.