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• Lab Notes: Where's my needle-free vaccine?

  Hate getting needles? You're in good company — one in five people in Australia have needle fear.

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• The wonder of sharks surviving for 500 million years

  Sharks have survived 500 million years while mass extinctions have wiped out other species. Now, sharks are under threat.

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• Lab Notes: Why did NASA spend a billion bucks on Lucy?

  Somewhere out past Mars in the early hours of Easter Monday, a space probe called Lucy whizzed by an asteroid named Donaldjohanson.Lucy then sent back images showing Donaldjohanson is about five kilometres wide and shaped like a peanut.It's one of a handful of asteroids on Lucy's 12-year itinerary.So what does the billion-dollar mission hope to achieve?

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• The power of palaeontology

  Palaeontology helps reveal why some animals are in desperate need of help while others thrive.

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• Lab Notes: Why sprinting sensation Gout Gout is so fast

  Gout Gout is fast becoming the face of Australian athletics, regularly clocking blisteringly quick times over 100- and 200-metre sprints.And he's only 17. Many think the best is yet to come.So what is it about Gout that makes him such an impressive sprinter at such a young age?

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