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Social housing the key to protecting low-income renters, study finds
- Feb 2, 2026
Low-income renters in Australia are far less likely to experience housing stress, rent arrears, or be forced to relocate when living in social housing...
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Teen's 1958 find becomes Australia's oldest dinosaur fossil
- Feb 2, 2026
University of Queensland research has confirmed Brisbane's only dinosaur fossil is Australia's oldest, dating back to the earliest part of the Late Tr...
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Long-period Jupiter-like exoplanet discovered with TESS
- Feb 2, 2026
Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new extrasolar planet transiting a di...
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Fast-moving floodwater poses hidden danger for cities
- Feb 2, 2026
New research, led by Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Lea Dasallas at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC), shows that even shallow flood...
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New formula unravels vines' parasitic nature
- Feb 2, 2026
Twisting upwardly on trees and other plants—along with houses and even lampposts—vines are a wonder of nature. However, their marvels mask their paras...
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Experiments clear up confusion over the form of solid methane
- Feb 2, 2026
Through a combination of high-pressure experiments and optical spectroscopy, physicists have revealed new insights into the structural forms of solid...
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Infrared running of gravity offers a field-theoretic route to dark matter phenomena
- Feb 2, 2026
The mystery of dark matter—unseen, pervasive, and essential in standard cosmology—has loomed over physics for decades. In new research, I explore a di...
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A student made cosmic dust in her lab—what she found could help us understand how life started on Earth
- Feb 2, 2026
A Sydney Ph.D. student has recreated a tiny piece of the universe inside a bottle in her laboratory, producing cosmic dust from scratch. The results s...
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Multiple bacteria may be behind elk hoof disease
- Feb 2, 2026
A debilitating hoof disease affecting elk herds across the Pacific Northwest appears to be driven not by a single pathogen but by multiple bacterial s...
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Biologists discover alternative systems that help cells control genes
- Feb 2, 2026
Researchers at the School of Biological Sciences of The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have uncovered how eukaryotic cells can control gene activity ev...
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Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route
- Feb 2, 2026
New research may have solved an American mystery which has baffled geologists for a century and a half: How did a river carve a path through a mountai...
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FAA dismisses airline, sonic boom concerns in signing off on SpaceX Starship plans from KSC
- Feb 2, 2026
SpaceX's path to launching its massive Starship rocket from Florida's Space Coast passed another hurdle Friday after the Federal Aviation Administrati...