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1081 - Lab Notes: Eel sex ball

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1081 - Lab Notes: Eel sex ball

Wed, 04 Nov 2026
1080 - The British Science Festival

Sat, 31 Oct 2026
1079 - Lab Notes: Bogong moths bounce back?

Wed, 28 Oct 2026
1078 - Collaboration between life forms and how bees protect their hives from disease

Sat, 24 Oct 2026
1077 - Lab Notes: What's in store for wildlife this summer?

Wed, 21 Oct 2026
1076 - 72 per cent of UK trees threatened by changing climate, plus the simple spud’s complex genetics

Sat, 17 Oct 2026
1075 - Lab Notes: When astronomers make mistakes

Wed, 14 Oct 2026
1074 - Nobel Prizes, kitchen fumes and a biography of Francis Crick

Sat, 10 Oct 2026
1073 - Lab Notes: When is it time to throw in the towel?

Wed, 07 Oct 2026
1072 - Paul Nurse and assessing the health of Australian trees

Sat, 03 Oct 2026
1071 - Lab Notes: Why you shouldn't leave your phone charging

Wed, 30 Sep 2026
1070 - Deep sea nodules, ideas in ecology, and three brilliant scientists not always on the money

Sat, 26 Sep 2026
1069 - Lab Notes: Have we found dark matter?

Wed, 23 Sep 2026
1068 - The big cats that stalked early humans and why ancient concrete outlasts the modern stuff

Sat, 19 Sep 2026
1067 - Lab Notes: The AI maths wars

Tue, 15 Sep 2026
1066 - AI boost for people with dyslexia and how algorithms shape what we read

Sat, 12 Sep 2026
1065 - Lab Notes: Where could bird flu go next?

Wed, 09 Sep 2026
1064 - As fire ravages the Northern Hemisphere, is Australia ready for a record-breaking El Niño? And why optimists live longer than pessimists

Sat, 05 Sep 2026
1063 - Lab Notes: Why are we ticklish?

Wed, 02 Sep 2026
1062 - A moon beyond our Solar System, dust storms on Mars and questioning of reality

Sat, 29 Aug 2026
1061 - Lab Notes: The redback sex-death somersault

Wed, 26 Aug 2026
1060 - The debate over who should be in the genus Homo, and the trailblazing botanical illustrators, Harriet and Helena Scott

Sat, 22 Aug 2026
1059 - Lab Notes: The 'Hail Mary' effort to rescue a telescope

Wed, 19 Aug 2026
1058 - How nematodes love smelly feet, plants that trap insects, Australians at CERN and vale Peter Raven

Sat, 15 Aug 2026
1057 - Lab Notes: How do flowers know when to bloom?

Wed, 12 Aug 2026
1056 - Dark Matter search from inner Melbourne, Gelion update, Bach and maths and vale Bill Oddie

Sat, 08 Aug 2026
1055 - Lab Notes: In an era of AI hacking, how safe is the census?

Wed, 05 Aug 2026
1054 - Looking inside cells, and how seals hear so well underwater

Sat, 01 Aug 2026
1053 - Lab Notes: What will we see in a 10-year movie of the universe?

Wed, 29 Jul 2026
1052 - Pioneers past and present, and fiddling with life brings a heavy caution

Sat, 25 Jul 2026
1051 - Lab Notes: How do we predict the snow season?

Wed, 22 Jul 2026
1050 - Fossil graveyards an archive of past climate and ecology

Sat, 18 Jul 2026
1049 - Lab Notes: What's it like to be in a clinical trial?

Wed, 15 Jul 2026
1048 - Monitoring Antarctic glaciers and the science of gluten-free baking

Sat, 11 Jul 2026
1047 - Lab Notes: Is AI taking over mathematics?

Wed, 08 Jul 2026
1046 - As bird flu arrives in Australia, an endangered species is being quarantined

Sat, 04 Jul 2026
1045 - Lab Notes: Is space junk destroying the ozone layer?

Wed, 01 Jul 2026
1044 - How bird brains help us understand human brains, and how eugenics had as much hand in the birth control movement as did feminism

Sat, 27 Jun 2026
1043 - Lab Notes: The bird flu risk for Aussie wildlife

Wed, 24 Jun 2026
1042 - Insects and pain and The Selfish Gene turns 50

Sat, 20 Jun 2026
1041 - Lab Notes: What happens when a whale dies?

Wed, 17 Jun 2026
1040 - Kris sword with an intriguing history, echidnas, tropical forests and Australia’s energy potential

Sat, 13 Jun 2026
1039 - Lab Notes: Tallest tree in East Asia

Thu, 11 Jun 2026
1038 - The First Inventors

Sat, 06 Jun 2026
1037 - Lab Notes: Plants can hear you

Wed, 03 Jun 2026
1036 - AI tools in ocean research and a tribute to Dame Bridget Ogilvie

Sat, 30 May 2026
1035 - Lab Notes: Lead may be hiding in your clothing

Thu, 28 May 2026
1034 - Sex testing at the Olympics: beware the exceptions

Sat, 23 May 2026
1033 - Lab Notes: Giant dino discovery fulfils a childhood dream

Thu, 21 May 2026
1032 - Science and the budget, bird flu closer to Australia and a guide to pollination

Sat, 16 May 2026

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