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Great Moments in Science

Jargon moving forwards

Jargon has way more uses than just playing Buzzword Bingo. It’s a popular item in the propaganda and social toolkits.

Australian Geographic

The Science Behind the Tides

There are about 120 different possible tides each day. There are tides that happen once a day, twice a day, three times a day, four times a day, and so on. THE TOWN OF Karumba – at the Gulf of Carpentaria’s bottom right-hand corner – experiences only one high tide and one low tide each […]


Great Moments in Science

Smell, part 1

We see our human sense of smell as woefully inadequate compared to other animals but awareness of our sense of smell has become more of a hot topic recently with the COVID-19 pandemic. A significant number of people who get the virus lose their sense of smell early on. It seems that a loss of smell can be a very good early sign of COVID-19 infection. 

Great Moments in Science

Why do we sleep?

What our brains do when we clock off for the night…