Angus Dalton
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 27
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- Sep 29, 2026
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- Jul 4, 2026
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‘Ultimate superbug’: New form of antibiotic resistance uncovered (opens the original)
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Examine, a free newsletter covering science, is sent every Tuesday. You’re reading an excerpt – sign up to get the whole newsletter in your inbox. In the brutal arms race between drugs and bugs, serendipity has often been on humanity’s side. In 1928, Alexander Fleming left a petri dish unsealed and later found it overgrown with a green fuzz that had partly killed his culture of Staphylococcus aureus. He’d discovered penicillin. That was the opening salvo in what would become an evolutionary batt
Peter Piot helped discover Ebola. Fifty years on, he’s advocating for a ‘holy grail’ vaccine (opens the original)
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Fifty years ago, Sir Peter Piot opened a mysterious package sent to his Belgian lab containing a thermos. With no protective gear besides latex gloves, the young microbiologist unscrewed it and found a slurry of half-melted ice, the shards of a broken test tube, clotted blood, and ink running from a handwritten note. The letters could still be deciphered: the blood, a physician had written from a clinic in Kinshasa, now the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was from a Belgian nun
Do animals grieve? Rare footage of a mother and her calf may hold the answer (opens the original)
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The sea was calm and the sky half-strewn with clouds on a winter’s morning at Palm Beach Reef, off the Gold Coast, when Andrew Mulville arrived by boat to check on two whales milling in the shallow water. Members of the public had become worried that one of the humpbacks was injured or entangled, and reported their concerns to Sea World. Mulville, a whale rescue boat captain with the organisation, happened to be fishing nearby. The whales weren’t hurt, he found, but were behaving strangely. An a
Jess gave birth on an opioid treatment program. It inspired her to start a PhD (opens the original)
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Examine, a free newsletter covering science, is sent every Tuesday. You’re reading an excerpt – sign up to get the whole newsletter in your inbox. Amid the heroin crisis in the 1990s, Professor Ju Lee Oei was part of a team that established a world-first outpatient clinic in Sydney prescribing methadone to newborns exposed to opioids in the womb. “In the past, if a baby was withdrawing and no one recognised it, they’d likely be sent home and die,” Oei, now a senior neonatologist at The Royal Hos
Why Alex infected himself with blood-sucking hookworms, and kept them (opens the original)
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Seconds after the worms are applied to your forearm, they begin to burrow. The larvae deploy skin-dissolving enzymes and wriggle into the body to find a blood vessel. The feeling is not painful but can be intensely itchy. Once in the bloodstream, they are swept to your heart and pumped to the lungs, where they bust out of capillaries and crawl up your throat. Soon, you’ll swallow, shepherding the worms to the promised land: your guts. Here the worms affix to the walls of your intestines like lee
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