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APRIL 2016|| 3 CONTENTS 117 20 27 34 FEATURES 14 Creationism Evolves Nick Matzke It’s 10 years since the teaching of “intelligen ...
4 | APRIL 2016 CONTENTS 113 41 42 45 NEWS 6 Browse A roundup of science news from our shores. COLUMNS 5 Up Front The battle now ...
Defence Act Casts a Long Shadow The battle now shifts from public good to commercial research, as new Defence powers threaten a ...
World Temperature Could Rise 1.5°C by 2020 Global warming could occur more quickly than expected, according to modelling publish ...
Melting Antarctic Ice Sheet Is a “Sleeping Giant” Victoria University of Wellington scientist have warned of massive sea level r ...
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APRIL 2016|| 9 Increasing levels of methane in the atmosphere since 2007 are most likely due to agricultural practices, and not ...
10 | APRIL 2016 Following a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet for just 8 weeks can lead to rapid weight gain and health complicati ...
APRIL 2016|| 11 The Creation of Kosciusko Geologists have solved the mystery of how Australia’s highest mountain – Mount Koscius ...
Fusion Failure Fixed Scientists have worked out why the beams they use to heat hydrogen gas to a plasma ten times hotter than th ...
APRIL 2016|| 13 Dingo Skull Resists Cross-Breeding The dingo is resistant to one of the main threats to its survival as a specie ...
14 | APRIL 2016 Creationism Evolves NICK MATZKE It’s 10 years since the teaching of “intelligent design” was ruled unconstitutio ...
If we can use phylomemetics to do the samething for memes, then we will be on ourway tohaving an actual science of memes. Tothat ...
While this is the strong overall pattern, there was one impor- tant exception. In 2008, legislators in Louisiana combined text f ...
APRIL 2016|| 17 S ix closely related species of rock-wallaby from north- east Queensland have long been considered a classic exa ...
18 | APRIL 2016 46 chromosomes. This genetic material is passed from parent to offspring, providing the instructions for cells a ...
APRIL 2016|| 19 races in which the chromosome number varies from 16 to 22, rock-wallabies provide an excel- lent model system fo ...
Australia that everything is trying to kill you. While that mightbea fun way to scare tourists, there is no joking about the mur ...
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