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Breaking: the whale stuck in fishing tackle in Sydney Harbour appears to be FREE! smh.com.au/environment/co…

🚨 SOUND THE GIANT SEA SCORPION FOUND IN NSW KLAXON 🚨 some very cool work + a super interesting backstory here as to how Australian Museum palaeontologist Dr Patrick Smith uncovered this fossil 🌊🦂 smh.com.au/national/nsw/g…

A Chinese-Australian research paper testing the DNA of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang has been retracted over concerns about informed consent... and police involvement. It's not the only study Australian researchers are doing in Xinjiang on minorities 🧵 buff.ly/3XsA1Fl

Huge piece of work by Anthony Segaert and the The Sydney Morning Herald team on candidates standing for election to local councils this weekend. And their top priority? Protecting local heritage smh.com.au/national/nsw/w…

Angus Dalton - "Then came the surprise: they realised the structure was almost identical to a plant protein that transports auxin, a hormone that helps bend stems and leaves towards sunlight to boost photosynthesis." smh.com.au/national/the-p…

If brains of political opponents are structurally different, how can we disagree well, despite disparities in grey matter? A Nobel Prize winner weighs in. (See also: a man devouring worms, the death of the universe, and Colin Firth.) 🌌🧠 smh.com.au/national/left-…

he's been back for one (1) day, and Angus Dalton already has some bad news for us: Sydney’s relieving southerly buster may be running out of puff smh.com.au/national/nsw/s…

What attracts mosquitoes? How to know if you’re a magnet - thanks for this ⁦Angus Dalton⁩ ⁦Dr Cameron Webb⁩ 😊🦟 smh.com.au/national/nsw/t…

Fluoro-red mosquitoes are headed for Australia to help repel dengue - and you could be hatching them. Here's how gene engineering - inspired by DNA from coral, E.Coli, herpes, moths and fruit flies - could slash invasive mozzie numbers 🦟 smh.com.au/national/the-f…

*bangs pots and pans together* SOUTHERLY BUSTER COMING! 🌬️ Here's why they're getting more common - but feel like they've gone on hiatus: smh.com.au/national/nsw/s…

It's our last Examine science newsletter/column for the year and what an ~extremely~ cool and beautifully written story Liam Mannix has for us. Check it out + sign up to the newsletter for free science reportage in your inbox next year! ☄️💎 theage.com.au/national/victo…

Note we haven’t heard as much of the usual climate denial mantra “we’ve had bushfires for centuries. This is nothing unusual” in the face of catastrophic WINTER fires feasting on massive fuel loads & fanned by 100+ kph winds We’ve been warned for decades smh.com.au/national/hydro…

An important piece on the “hydro-climate whiplash” – a term for the phenomenon of savage seasonal swings between catastrophic rain and sapping drought – an atmosphere stoked by the burning of fossil fuels is creating. watoday.com.au/national/hydro…

They conquered our bins. Now Sydney’s cockatoos have learnt to use bubblers Angus Dalton smh.com.au/national/nsw/t…