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Next on Australian Story, meet the young family helping to bring our endangered animals back from the brink of extinction 🐾
Into the Wild | Monday on #AustralianStory @ABCTV
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"There are no other scavengers in the world that we know of who do this," says Ms Anna Lewis, lead author of the study and PhD candidate at @UNSWScience.
Shown below, Ms Lewis releases one of the Tasmanian devils involved in the study.
🎥: Emily Jarvis
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Will sir be dining on the wallaby or bird carcass this evening? 🍽
A new study led by UNSW has found Australia's Tasmanian devils – a natural scavenger of the wild – are actually picky eaters, each with their own specific tastes and preferences.
More: unsw.to/DevilsDiet
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My first PhD paper is (finally) out! We were surprised to find that despite their reputation for eating anything and everything, most Tasmanian devils are actually dietary specialists.
Is it because they lack competition from other large predators?
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As online events became more common during lockdowns, another trend also emerged...
Read about why you should avoid making a "set-and-forget" Welcome to Country video + why it's time to retire 'emerging Elders'.
A yarn w/ Prof Megan Davis @mdavisqlder.
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A 3700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet could be the oldest and most complete example of applied geometry known to humankind.
Read more: unsw.to/BabylonianTrigonomet…
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(SOUND ON)
#scientists led by @unsw Science's @TraceyLRogers from @unswbees are confident they’ve discovered a new population of pygmy blue whales in the Indian Ocean.
And it was the whales’ powerful #singing – recorded by underwater bomb detectors – that gave them away.
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The earth and its oceans form a giant life support system. Today is #WorldOceansDay - let’s celebrate through understanding, protecting & restoring our shared environmental assets. #WorldOceansDay2021 💙 #oceans @WorldOceansDay @UNSWScience
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“It’s a reminder that breath is always political.”
#COVID19 sparked political, cultural and social tensions globally, and face masks became their battleground. Now, masks don't just symbolise the virus – but some of the biggest struggles of our times.
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It’s time to take dingoes out of the doghouse.
A new @UNSWScience study reveals almost all wild canines in Australia are genetically more than half dingo – suggesting that lethal measures to control ‘wild dog’ populations are primarily targeting dingoes.
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"Gliese 486b is the type of planet we'll be studying for the next 20 years." 🚀
A newly discovered planet around 26 light-years away could change the way we look for life in the universe.
@UNSWScience's Dr @benmontet, co-author of the study, explores: unsw.to/EarthsHotNewNeighbou…
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Really nice write-up from @spacebarge @UNSWScience describing the discovery of Gl 486b with @CARMENES_exopl and @NASA_TESS and discussing why it's an important planet!
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With help from a 42,000-year-old tree, scientists have pieced together a moment in Earth's history when the magnetic field and climate went haywire, perhaps driving a series of extinctions. “It was just an extraordinary revelation," one researcher said. nyti.ms/3k8YFFW
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What do The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a magnetic field, and an ancient tree have in common? 📖⚡️🌲
Surprise, surprise, it all comes down to 42!
From electrical storms to cosmic radiation, @stephenfry explains how a polar magnetic flip impacts life on Earth.
Had a lot of fun working on this piece! Summer snorkelling checklist sorted 🐠🦑🐛
We can't travel overseas this summer, but there's another world waiting to be explored in our own backyard. 🌊
Ahead of the summer holidays, we spoke to six @UNSWScience researchers about their favourite creatures to look for while snorkelling! 🐠🐟
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Yay @hayleyscrivenor! 🥳
We're thrilled to announce @hayleyscrivenor (NSW) as the winner of the 2020 KYD Unpublished Manuscript Award, for her novel 'The Push Back'! buff.ly/3fRSvHT
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We are proud to announce the @UNSW Press #BraggPrize for Science Writing runners-up. Congratulations! 🎊
- Ricky French (@frenchricky) for ‘The Case of the Missing Frogs’ and;
- Konrad Marshall (@KonradMarshall) for ‘Jeepers Creepers’.
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We are proud to announce the 2020 @UNSW Press #BraggPrize for Science Writing WINNER — Ceridwen Dovey for ‘True Grit’, originally published in
@WIRED. Congratulations! 🎊🌜🌕
Read the winning piece: wired.com/story/moondust-nas…
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“Maths is not only seen as beautiful – beauty is also mathematical,” says Dr. Thomas Britz. Learn more about the surprising ways that math and beauty intersect in our world. ow.ly/ncAJ50ClF4o