NOVEMBER 2010

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The Risky Business of Being Male
Female babies are more likely to survive a stressful pregnancy.

Lizards Give Birth To Cancer Clues
A gene found in a pregnant lizard may provide important information about the origins and treatment of cancer in humans.

Head Modification Explains the Origin of the First Australians
Evidence of head shape modification among Pleistocene Australians helps refute claims of an evolutionary connection with Indonesian Homo erectus.

Sleight of Memory
Our memories can easily deceive us, for good or for ill.

Sinking Aristotle’s Sailing Octopus
By expertly manipulating air gathered from the sea surface, argonauts are able to control their buoyancy and traverse the world’s oceans at depth.

Big Floods = Big Barras
More barramundi survive to adulthood during big flood years due to increased feeding opportunities.

Double Jeopardy for Corals
Not only are corals jeopardised by warmer waters but their growth is constrained as they change from heat-sensitive to heat-tolerant symbiotic algae in order to survive.

Capturing Carbon with Membranes
Membrane technologies being developed in Australia hope to cut the cost of capturing industrial emissions of carbon dioxide.

The Straw Men of Climatology
The straw man arguments of climate contrarians portray a brittle image of climatology that ignores how science produces robust knowledge by embracing and correcting errors.

conSCIENCE

Good Science Done Properly
Scientists have a social responsibility to maintain high ethical standards in their work.

REGULAR COLUMNS

BROWSE
Ten pages of the latest science news from our shores.

SIMON SAYS
Julia Gillard’s new ministry is not a coherent platform for science-based policy.

AUSTRALASIAN SKY
Your guide to the night sky this month.

OUT OF THIS WORLD
Dave Reneke brings news from the space and astronomy communities around the world.

COOL CAREERS
Colin Carter is putting the production of French black truffles onto a scientific footing.

NAKED SKEPTIC
Chiropractors should not promote their services as an alternative to vaccination or treat children for conditions like autism and asthma.

PUBLISH OR PERISH
Your guide to new science books published this month.

ECO LOGIC
This year’s global update on the state of biodiversity tells us that the world has failed to meet all of the international targets set in 2002. But is news bad enough for any country to do anything about it?

LOWE TECH
The minority government may do more for science than either of the major parties would have done with a secure majority.

QUANDARY
A leading researcher into the biological basis of morality has been found guility of academic misconduct.

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