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• ‘When, not if’: H5N1 bird flu outbreak could reach Australia this spring, experts warn

  11-08-2024 17:00
  Some wild bird populations, like those on Lord Howe Island, are at lower risk from the virus but other populations could face a ‘wildlife massacre’Sign up for the Rural Network email newsletterJoin the Rural Network group on Facebook to be part of the communityTens of thousands of seabirds swoop and squawk around us but just two come crashing through the canopy.They are providence petrels, summoned by the quavering, high-pitched call of Jack Shick, a birdwatcher and tour guide on Lor
  
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• Fusion power might be 30 years away but we will reap its benefits well before

  11-08-2024 07:00
  
  Discoveries made in pursuit of nuclear fusion have potentially huge practical applications in everything from curing cancer to superior batteries for EVsWhen James Watt’s first commercial steam engine was installed in March 1776 at Bloomfield Colliery, Tipton in the West Midlands, it was hailed as a mechanical marvel. Yet few could have anticipated the way steam engines would change the world.Developed initially to pump water from mines, the technology was adapted across so many industries
  
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