Angus Dalton

New South Wales, Sydney

Science Reporter at Sydney Morning Herald

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Articles

Radiation dangers of three nuclear sites struck by the US

6 days ago | smh.com.au | Angus Dalton

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The US has obliterated three major nuclear sites in Iran, President Donald Trump declared on Sunday about noon AEST. Even before the US strikes, Rafael Grossi, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, warned Israeli bombardment of nuclear sites had “caused a sharp degradation in nuclear safety and security in Iran”.
Burst of springlike weather forecast after parts of NSW colder than Antarctica

6 days ago | smh.com.au | Angus Dalton

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A taste of springlike warmth will offer Sydneysiders a reprieve from its frigid winter weather early next week after parts of NSW woke to conditions colder than Antarctica on the weekend’s winter solstice.
Fermented poo and lunar cycles: How ‘witchcraft’ is used to perfect wine

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Angus Dalton

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Saturday at 12.42pm is a crucial time for viticulturist Kesh Mudaly. It’s the exact moment of the winter solstice. At the solstice, Mudaly says, earthwards-flowing sap will reverse course and head towards the heavens within the grapevines of shiraz, merlot and zinfandel she tends at Lowe Family Wine Co near Mudgee.
Choosing the sex of a baby is banned in Australia. Should it be?

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Angus Dalton

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Examine, a free weekly newsletter covering science with a sceptical, evidence-based eye, is sent every Tuesday. You’re reading an excerpt – Sign up to get the whole newsletter in your inbox. Should people undergoing IVF be allowed to choose the sex of their baby?
Parasitic disease causing brain inflammation on the rise in Sydney

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Angus Dalton

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Infections by a parasitic worm carried by rats, snails and slugs that can cause lethal brain infections in humans are increasing in dogs on Australia’s east coast, a Sydney study has found.
‘World first’: 5G spy will know if your home’s at risk of disaster

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Angus Dalton

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Scientists have harnessed the signals that transmit phone calls and messages to create an enormous, highly accurate tool for monitoring river levels that could revolutionise emergency warnings in an era of intensifying, unpredictable and deadly flash-floods.
The hidden menace on the rise in Australia’s favourite winter holiday destinations

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Angus Dalton

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. They call it break-bone fever. The day after Redfern student and paralegal Kaya Lehmann returned from a Bali holiday, she fell sick with pain in her lower back, hips, elbows and knees. Her eyes felt swollen and she could barely move or eat. “I thought I had late-onset Bali belly,” she said. “But the joint pain was horrific. I had quite high fevers around the 39 to 40 degree mark.
Here’s what happens when a rubber bullet strikes your body

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Angus Dalton

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Australian journalist Lauren Tomasi came away from a day reporting on the Los Angeles protests with a “bloody big old bruise” after a police officer shot her in the leg with a rubber bullet on Monday morning AEST. The Nine News US correspondent continued working, sore and bruised, but otherwise uninjured.
New test offers fresh hope for coeliac disease suffers

2 weeks ago | theage.com.au | Angus Dalton

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It’s a terrible dilemma. Sick of suffering diarrhoea, fatigue and bloating, people who suspect they might have coeliac disease give up gluten and begin to feel better. But then a doctor orders them to keep eating bread for months. That’s because coeliac disease can be diagnosed only if the body is reacting against gluten.
Sydney cockatoos drink from bubblers, flip bin lids in captivating urban adaption

3 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Angus Dalton

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Cockatoos in Sydney have learnt to operate and drink from bubblers in another extraordinary urban adaption that has snatched the attention of international scientists.