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A tale of two rivers: is it safer to swim in the Yarra in Victoria, or the Nepean in NSW?
Cooling off with a swim in the river is a popular summer pastime in Australia, particularly…
Carbon footprint impacted more by socio-economic status than location
Swiss households have excessively large carbon footprints. However, that footprint depends more on socio-economic status than…
Negative consequences of antiterrorism policy in Europe
“It’s right and proper that we have policies to prevent terrorism,” says Francesco Ragazzi, university lecturer…
Chaos generated with a nanoscale magnetic vortex
Magnetic vortices are nanoscale whirls that gyrate like spinning tops, tracing out paths in a clockwise…
Rewilding can mitigate climate change, researchers report after global assessment
A new study has shown that rewilding can help to mitigate climate change, delivering a diverse…
People hate flight shame—but not enough to quit flying
Despite flying being the single fastest way to grow our individual carbon footprint, people still want…
NASA’s Webb Will Seek Atmospheres around Potentially Habitable Exoplanets
More than one team of astronomers will study the TRAPPIST-1 system with Webb. They plan to…
The science behind and beyond Luca's mission
As ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano marks his 200 days in space as part of his Beyond…
Novel method used to investigate supernova remnant DEM L71
Using the smoothed particle inference (SPI) technique, astronomers have investigated the supernova remnant (SNR) DEM L71,…