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Ancient Aus/Brit works on virus evolution.
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ScienceAdviser: Weird microbe may be becoming a virus | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

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In Vaccine Nation, Raina MacIntyre reflects on science, misinformation and the threat to 200 years of progress theconversation.com/in-vaccine-n...

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Australia news live: PM says ‘friends have to be clear with each other’ over sanctions on Israeli ministers; Qantas shutters Jetstar Asia

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'There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty'. M Thatcher. What 'liberty ' is there with little money, no job, bad dentistry, no housing etc? Freedom from an agonizing day-to-day struggle to survive is the first measure of liberty in contemporary society. Liberte´,egalite´, fraternite´!

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For the first time, fossil stomach contents of a sauropod dinosaur reveal what they really ate theconversation.com/for-the-firs...

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Unprecedented heat in the North Atlantic Ocean kickstarted Europe’s hellish 2023 summer. Now we know what caused it theconversation.com/unprecedente... Global climate change? TACO

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The secret to Ukraine’s battlefield successes against Russia – it knows wars are never won in the past theconversation.com/the-secret-t... - not an AUKUS submarine in sight, and a very small fraction of the price.

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🧪🌾NEWS - Are you working with long non-coding RNAs and genomics?🧬 Jian-Feng Mao's group @umeauniversitet.bsky.social & colleagues have developed PlantLncBoost, a new computational tool that allows to identify such RNAs in plants with over 96% accuracy. Read more here: www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...

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As the US Navy contemplates buying AIP subs, we should abandon the very high risk $368B #AUKUS program. We should instead buy 20 off-the-shelf AIP subs, built here and enhanced by local industry, for only $30B - with the significant change used to buy other defence needs. 1/2 #auspol

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Surely this is what you’d expect for a ‘snot-transmitted virus’?

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Rice plants inherit cold tolerance in just three generations - without changes to their DNA. This study challenges an interpretation of evolution that has been around for more than a hundred years 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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I’m old fashioned enough to think the BBC should be leading on what the deal is and what it means. Rather than the political claims from both sides.

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It’s easy to credit AI for breakthroughs, but science is the scaffolding AI climbs. No algorithm can conjure context from thin air.

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Latest findings on cryptic infection of giant viruses published in @ScienceMagazine. We discovered a large virus hiding within a green algal genome producing virions. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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It’s wild mushroom season in Australia. Here’s how to stay safe and avoid poisoning theconversation.com/its-wild-mus...

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