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The discovery that certain overseas processed meat products contained, Quelle Horreur, meat that was not exactly the promised beef has generated a fair degree of shock and outrage. There’s a number of…
This weekend the asteroid 2012 DA14 will zoom across our skies, just below the geostationary satellite orbits. While Australians are fortunate in that they have a chance to view this otherworldly rock…
This Australia Day, you might be feeling a little nervous as you slap your slightly carbonised sausages or lamb chops on a melamine plate if you have read news coverage of research just published in the…
If you have been reenacting a crossing of the Simpson desert for the past two years, or are a recently returned hermit, they you are probably unaware of the forthcoming Mayan Calendar Apocalypse. To briefly…
The difference between today and 2002 could have hardly been more stark. Then, a knot of us waited in the desert on a slight rise over an ancient ochre mine. The air was dry and the sun was setting over…
There’s just two sleeps to go until the Solar Eclipse on Wednesday 14 November 2012. This is the first significant solar eclipse since 2002. If you want to make a last minute dash to north Queensland to…
The recent announcement that Alzheimer’s disease may develop up to 20 years before we can diagnose it by conventional means comes as a coda to a year of turmoil in Alzheimer’s drug development. The drug…
Every year consumer advocate Choice magazine hands out its “Shonky” awards for products that, to put it mildly, do not live up to the manufacturers claims of effectiveness or quality. Being on the shonky…
Image Credit: Ian Musgrave Australians can never look at the sky the same way again. When you go out tonight to look at the southern sky, you will know that alpha Centauri, the red star in the iconic pointers…
Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) is in the news this week with two recently released studies. As you may remember from one of my previous articles, PFOA is persistent organic pollutant which can accumulate…