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Issue #1947

Success of Cuba’s fight against Coronavirus

On the 1st of January, 2021, Cuban revolution completed 62 years.

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Global briefs Issue #2169

GLOBAL BRIEFS

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: US troops arrived in Trinidad and Tobago to conduct military exercises over several days. The first troops arrived aboard the destroyer USS...

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Technician conducting experiments in CSIRO laboratories at Griffith, NSW, 1995. Issue #2111

Government slashes CSIRO

CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, has a lot of runs on the board, including Aeroguard, the polymer banknotes we all use, and...

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Issue #2081

Neither Confirm nor Deny – How the Glomar Mission Shielded the CIA from Transparency

In the 1970s scientific journals such as Scientific American had numerous articles on the mineral bonanza being recovered from the deep ocean floors. In 1975...

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Scientist examines a length of the shallow ice core. Issue #2070

Antarctic funding cuts

Almost half of the staff in the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) have signed an open letter calling on the Department of Climate Change, Environment, Energy...

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Issue #2093

DINGO

In the 18th century, there was joy among civilised people because thought had finally broken free of the cant of religion. It was hailed as...

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Issue #2090

DINGO

In the 18th century, there was joy among civilised people because thought had finally broken free of the cant of religion. It was hailed as...

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Cuba night, Fremantle, 2011. Issue #2185

Australia’s friendship with Cuba

As the Trump administration’s murderous blockade continues, the Communist Party of Australia maintains fraternal connections with the Communist Party of Cuba and the Cuban government....

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Wind farm. Issue #2053

“Vastly out of line with the science”

The Climate Council has slammed Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s decision to ignore the climate risk of four polluting coal projects as “reckless” and “out of...

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CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope. Issue #2186

CSIRO ‘barely surviving’

The science industry showed up to support CSIRO in Canberra recently, as the Senate Economics Committee held a public hearing as part of an ongoing...

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Australia's first fully automated, around-the-clock, synthetic fuels research facility. CSIRO Perth, 2010. Issue #2173

CSIRO staff cuts: sacrificing the future

CSIRO (the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), is Australia’s leading science and research agency. It has announced it will cut 350 science research roles...

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