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FEATURES
12 The Dark Web Dilemma
The dark web can hide the activities of organised crime and child
abusers but it can also help people living in repressive regimes.
15 Recognising Nemo
Recent studies are dispelling the myth that fish have a 3second
memory. In fact, some reef fish can even recognise human faces.
18 A Trojan Horse to Clear a Stuffy Nose
A new tactic against antibiotic resistance is to penetrate the biofilms
that bacteria secrete to protect themselves from antibiotics.
20 A Dinosaur with an ID Crisis
It’s little wonder that a dinosaur with parrotlike beak, bones in its skin
and an inner ear like a turtle confused Queensland palaeontologists.
24 Pharmed Meds
Some clever chemistry is turning plants into pharmaceutical factories
that enable remote communities to grow cheap and stable medicines.
26 Birth of the Red Sea
New evidence about the creation of the Red Sea has fundamentally
changed how geologists understand the birth of oceans.
28 Guardians of the Gut
The appendix has long been considered an evolutionary relic but new
evidence indicates it has an important role in our immune system.
30 Mortality Molecules
Cancer cells exploit a mechanism that protects normal cells from DNA
damage. Can we use these molecules to make these cells mortal again?
32 The Bacteria that Promote Cancer
A bacterial protein can trigger inflammation and facilitate the
progression of cancer.
34 The Bold & the Beautiful
The discovery that a gene partly determines which swans are bold and
which are wary could assist captive breeding programs in cities.
conSCIENCE
36 Chemistry: 21st Century Science for the Global
Economy
In a country where almost all of the 92 natural elements can be found,
chemistry offers Australia sustainable economic prosperity.37 Myths about Carbon Storage in Soil
Goals of sequestering carbon in agricultural soil ignore the law of
diminishing returns.
38 Election 2016
The Coalition and Labor parties outline their vision for science.