Mathew Domeier's University of Oslo team finds four fast bursts of true polar wander recorded in ancient sea levels over the past 190 million years. During those bursts, he says, the poles moved faster than most tectonic plates do, fast enough to possibly affect climate.
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University of Sydney researchers scored four human blastoid methods against RNA from 14,000-plus embryo cells, and none fully matched a real blastocyst. Because the gaps differ by protocol, labs need to know which model produced a result before reading it as human biology.
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University of Sydney researchers have split Australia's Anchiale stick insects from two species into five, one laying eggs with a lidlike structure new to the group. The insects already had more than 1000 citizen-science records, and telling them apart took DNA analysis checked against museum specimens.
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Australian officials blame US feeds for anger at datacentres, but the backlash has already produced three inquiries and planned federal power rules. Builders of gigawatt sites face a planned gas ban and a rule to add as much new renewable supply as they consume.
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Mark Zuckerberg met a year of harassment reports at Connect 2026 by restating the glasses' recording light, while Meta took 94% of first-half shipments. The resistance is coming from bystanders and the places they gather, in Australian council bans and London venues weighing their own.
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A University of Sydney survey of coral feeding scars on the Great Barrier Reef found crown-of-thorns starfish moving on before a colony died, with regrowth concentrated in the slow-growing corals Montipora and Porites.
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Researchers led from Sydney and Imperial simulated pastoral households across seven southern African countries and report that better seasonal information helped the poorest herders only when something also paid for the response.
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LONG's own figures put more than $425 million of stock-paired volume against almost $12 million of locked liquidity. Angelo Aspris blames thin reserves for a tokenized HIMS price that came apart from the real one.
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A University of Sydney group sampled living hearts during bypass operations and found human heart muscle cells dividing after a heart attack, the response mice were known to mount and no one had shown in people.
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Australia's draft Digital Duty of Care Bill threatens fines up to A$109 million if platforms fail to offer the choice, and it defines the alternative as friends and follows, so whether the opt-out holds depends on how good that feed turns out to be.
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University of Sydney researchers want to spare cleft-palate children the decade-long wait for a graft cut from their own body. So far the case rests on one eight-week endpoint in a preclinical model the announcement does not name.
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Management at the University of Sydney says its AI guardrails belong in policy, while the union wants them enforceable in the enterprise agreement, and that venue argument is the part other employers should study.
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Two mandatory psychology units lost their in-person classes this semester and kept their fee, which makes Macquarie an early read on whether students will pay the same money for teaching a machine now handles.
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A UK molecular biologist says dozens of cell-ageing studies used an antibody against a bacterial protein to detect a mammalian one. It is his third reagent flag in about three months.
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Sydney researchers 3D-printed six patients' diseased carotids, lined them with cells and flowed human blood through to watch clots form and shed. It is proof-of-concept, aimed at recurrent-event cases.
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A Vienna-led team used petrography and neutron activation analysis to fix the origin of Qurayyah Painted Ware, then argued the 3,200-year-old export functioned as a producer brand.
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Instagram removed nine of more than 20 flagged harassment clips, left near-identical ones live, and then Reels began serving the genre without being asked.
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