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news features opinion factfile profiles Blogs fiction reviews media room	Online news Sunday, 20 May 2012 Australia's science funding 'set by teenagers' Most of the Australian government’s research funding is dictated by university students' subject choices and this link needs to be broken, said Australia’s Chief Scientist Ian Chubb. read more Nanotech filters remove office fumes A new air purifier using sunlight and nanoparticles has been created to clean up dangerous pollutants – called volatile organic compounds - in the air of our offices and homes. read more Other news Awards fete chicken vaccines and solar cells Sugar can make you dumb Turtles closely related to birds and crocs Balding disease killing Australia's wombats Low-cost artificial leaf to help the world’s poorest Researchers develop self-powered retinal implants View all news Online features Poo transplants to treat range of diseases by Dyani Lewis \| Other people’s faeces is something we instinctively avoid, but the emerging science of the human microbiome suggests this gut reaction is wrong. read more Playing with genes by David Smith \| Some people play sport, others play Xbox. And now there is a growing group of people who play with DNA sequences. read more Read more features Selected COSMOS magazine features Bred to win by Becky McCall \| Hard work and training push elite athletes to the edge of their ability, but genetics also plays a key role in their ultimate performance, explains Becky McCall. read more Malaria's last stand by Meera Senthiligam \| Promising results from the world's biggest malaria trial could transform the landscape of infection for this devastating disease. read more Read more features Fiction Houseflies The blue swallow’s heart weighs 400 mg or so. I think I can pull off the whole project with half of that, give or take. read more 800 ms "How did a suicidal robot end up here?" It had taken over 20 years of painstaking preparation and research to plan his suicide. He had to learn everything there was to know about the science of sentience. read more Read more fiction Reviews In The Air Tonight In 1989, two Australian 'oztronauts' were sent on a top secret manned mission to Pluto: Jared, a child prodigy, and Xavier, a genius tortured by his fiancee's decision to dump him just days before the launch. read more Time Travel and Warp Drives: A Scientific Guide to Shortcuts through Time and Space If you can beat the speed of light, you can travel backwards in time. With decades of physics teaching between them Allen Everett and Thomas Romanare are well placed to explore the science around time travel and warp drives. read more Read more reviews