By Ariel Marcy, 25 March 2024
For 120 years, the SS Nemesis lay in an unknown location at the bottom of the ocean. In 1904, the 73-metre steamship disappeared in a storm with the tragic loss of 32 lives onboard. No one knew where SS Nemesis was until modern technology shone light – and sound – on the shipwreck.
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By Chenxin Tu, 6 March 2024
No one likes mosquito bites, and certainly not the ones that spread diseases. In a new study, scientists have found a way to protect us from yellow fever mosquitoes using static electricity.
By Ariel Marcy, 20 February 2024
They’re cute, colourful and … clever? Scientists just discovered that common clownfish can count! Or at least, they can recognise the number of stripes on other fish. And it helps them pick their friends from foes.
By Ariel Marcy, 7 February 2024
Palaeontologists have wondered for over a hundred years – how did dinosaurs evolve flight and become birds? To find the answer, researchers built a robot dinosaur!
By Ariel Marcy, 24 January 2024
Australian farmers produce a whopping 6.2 billion eggs each year. Unfortunately, most of the resulting eggshells end up in landfill. Australian scientist Manickam Minakshi Sundaram hopes to change this with a breakthrough use for eggshells: batteries!
By Ariel Marcy, 17 January 2024
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can create incredible images just from short, text-based prompts. AI’s ability to create imaginative pictures is perfect for the fiction story in each issue of Double Helix. So, we are carefully using an AI called Midjourney to generate these illustrations.
By Ariel Marcy, 27 December 2023
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By Chenxin Tu, 19 December 2023
What’s bold, bright, pink and could explore Mars? The Monash Nova Rover team designed the Waratah rover to spark innovation and conversations.
By Chenxin Tu, 29 November 2023
Scientists have been blown away by a recent detection of a gamma-ray burst (GRB), a type of strong cosmic explosion.
By Chenxin Tu, 15 November 2023
Finding one meteorite usually requires researchers to walk at least a few million square metres. Seamus Anderson from Curtin University has a way to speed up his meteorite hunts.
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