Here are some reblogs of some of Tim Harding’s favourite recent posts by other writers. (Reblogging does not necessarily entail endorsement of the views expressed).
2018
- Ancient fossil fills a 75 million-year gap and rewrites lizard and snake history
- Award to Michelle Simmons reflects strategic importance of quantum physics for Australia
- Looking at the universe through very different ‘eyes’
- A new blood test can detect eight different cancers in their early stages
- You too can be an astrophysicist with your new telescope
2017
- No sign of alien life ‘so far’ on the mystery visitor from space, but we’re still looking
- Fifty years ago Jocelyn Bell discovered pulsars and changed our view of the universe
- At last, we’ve found gravitational waves from a collapsing pair of neutron stars
- New research reveals the origin of Australia’s extinct flightless giants, the mihirung birds
- I have always wondered: why is the sea salty?
- Our controversial footprint discovery suggests human-like creatures may have roamed Crete nearly 6m years ago
- Climate change has changed the way I think about science. Here’s why
- Why the sunrise is still later after the winter solstice shortest day
- Exoplanet discovery by an amateur astronomer shows the power of citizen science
- Black holes are even stranger than you can imagine
2016
- 2016: the year in space and astronomy
- The evidence for evolution
- Once upon a time… how the Rosetta mission won our hearts
- Extinction alert: saving the world from a deadly asteroid impact
- Why we need a new science of safety
- Our ancestors were carnivorous super-predators, so do we really have a choice about eating meat?
- New dwarf planet in the outer solar system
- Beating heart of the Crab Nebula
- Spiny crayfish and their flatworm friends: an ancient partnership revealed
- Australia’s volcanic history is a lot more recent than you think
- All our food is ‘genetically modified’ in some way – where do you draw the line?
- Picture of Pluto further refined by months of New Horizons data
- What makes us conscious?
- Discovery of carbon on Mercury reveals the planet’s dark past
- Chief Scientist’s address to the National Press Club: The voyage of science and innovation
- Gravitational waves discovered: top scientists respond
- ASU’s Krauss hails discovery, which he predicted, as important as the invention of the telescope
- We are not all Neanderthal: this is how science proceeds
- 12 Days of Evolution #11: Are we still evolving?
2015
- Bone suggests ‘Red Deer Cave people’ a mysterious species of human
- The art and beauty of general relativity
- Why is Einstein’s general relativity such a popular target for cranks?
- Viruses don’t deserve their bad rap: they’re unsung heroes you never see
- Alan Finkel to be Australia’s new Chief Scientist
- PM’s Prize for Science for revealing nature’s solar power
- The myth that women secretly hate other women has a long history
- How we plan to bring dark matter to light
- We must defend science if we want a prosperous future
- Who’s top dog? New research sorts dominant and submissive canine poses
- Don’t fall off! The delicate balance of outrunning a predator
- The genetic blueprint of an octopus reveals much about this amazing creature
- Darwin’s finches highlight the unity of all life
- Darwin’s theory may be brilliant but it doesn’t explain everything
- The war on feral cats will need many different weapons
- Finding Pluto: the hunt for Planet X
- Beyond Pluto: New Horizons’s mission is not over yet
- Live blog: New Horizons flyby of Pluto
- New Horizons close encounter with Pluto will reveal its icy secrets
- NASA mission brings Pluto into sharp focus – but it’s still not a planet
- Do animals feel pain like we do?
- The Tesla battery heralds the beginning of the end for fossil fuels
- Turning the tables: using genetic mutations to fix nature’s problems
- Flake is sustainable gummy shark, except when it’s not
- How a PhD in linguistics prepared me for motherhood
- In the vaccine debate, science is just getting its boots on
- When science meets parliament
- A $2.5m investment in wind farms and health won’t solve anything
- FactCheck: are kangaroos at risk?
- Seven myths about scientists debunked
- Our view of Earth’s inner core is flipped on its side
- The sun won’t die for 5 billion years, so why do humans have only 1 billion years left on Earth?
- Cecilia Payne and the composition of the stars
- Eight million tonnes of plastic are going into the ocean each year
- Darwin: a great scientist
- Why fish (likely) don’t feel pain
- Marine heatwaves threaten the future of underwater forests
- From Mercury to Pluto: the year ahead in planetary exploration
- Exo-Earths and the search for life elsewhere: a brief history
- Sharks aren’t criminals, but our fear makes us talk as if they are
2014
- Bird tree of life shows ‘explosive evolution’: studies
- Pretty kitties: feline ‘friendly’ genes mapped in study
- The Rosetta lander detects organic matter: the seeds of life?
- Older people may be better learners than we think
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