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The specialized cancer agency of the World Health Organization, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), has announced that it […]
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Dozens of bushfires continue to rage in New South Wales, Australia. Our friends at the Australian Science Media Centre have […]
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Policy makers are hoping an Antarctic conservation meeting in Hobart could lead to no-fish zones in the Southern Ocean, but […]
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A large-scale survey in the UK suggests around one in 2,000 people carry an abnormal prion — a mis-folded brain […]
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Hamilton residents participating in a local body referendum have voted overwhelmingly to resume fluoridating the city’s water supply. The referendum […]
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Republished from The Conversation under Creative Commons license. By Rachael Dunlop, University of Technology, Sydney Recently released government figures show […]
Continue readingNobel Prize recognises basis of computational chemistry
Three scientists who laid the groundwork for moving chemistry into the digital era have been awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize […]
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