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  • Lab Notes: How Ozempic stops food cravings
    A weekly injection that stops that hankering for hot chips and donuts?Many people on Ozempic and similar medications report this phenomenon, saying they no longer have incessant thoughts about sweets and fried food.So how do these drugs, known as GLP-1 agonists, work in the brain to dial down "food noise" and help people lose weight?
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  • Celebrating Charles Todd and the overland telegraph
    The overland telegraph connecting Australia to the world was completed just over 150 years ago. It was built due to the dedication of a public servant, Charles Todd.
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  • Professor Roger Short, reproductive biologist
    Roger Short (1930_2021) discusses influences in his early life, and some of his research achievements including melatonin as a controller of circannual rhythms, and aspects of reproductive biology across the animal world.
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  • Hang on – we’re about to enter a wormhole!
    Get ready for gravitons, dark photons and transition states. Kathryn Zurek takes us on a tour of the bewildering world of quantum physics.
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  • Lab Notes: How microscopic algae can devastate ocean life
    A couple of months ago, a killer started mobilising off the South Australian shore — one that would wipe out marine life, make surfers feel sick, and smother picturesque beaches in thick foam.The culprit? A bloom of tiny organisms called microalgae. We can't see them with the naked eye, but in big enough numbers, they can devastate ecosystems.So what made the South Australian algal bloom so lethal, and can anything be done about blooms like it?
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