Ellen Phiddian
Science Journalist and Contributor at Cosmos Magazine
Science communicator // 'Surprisingly interesting' // she/her
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1 week ago |
abc.net.au | Ellen Phiddian
Millions of cars are bought and sold in Australia each year. At the moment, most of them are second-hand, petrol-fuelled vehicles. But that pattern is changing. Electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrid cars are growing in popularity, driven in part by government and organisation pledges to electrify their fleets. Vehicle efficiency standards, which are set to come into effect in July, should also see more EVs on the roads.
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2 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Ellen Phiddian
Egg-laying echidnas and platypuses are among the world's most bizarre mammals. With a spotty fossil record, it's difficult to tell how these monotremes evolved. But evidence is mounting that the ancestor of the ground-dwelling echidna may have looked more like a platypus — complete with a penchant for swimming. Palaeontologists have today published an analysis of a fossilised bone in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that further adds to this evidence.
Skeleton from Roman gladiator cemetery was mauled by a lion or other big cat, archaeologists suggest
3 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Ellen Phiddian
Forced to fight animals and each other for entertainment, gladiators loom large in the public imagination of the Roman Empire. But while there's plenty of Roman writing and art about gladiators, their bodily remains are rare. Now, a team of archaeologists has found what they claim to be the body of a gladiator who was bitten by an animal while — or just after — he died.
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4 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Ellen Phiddian
Astronomers claim to have discovered another exoplanet that orbits two suns, like the fictional planet of Tatooine in Star Wars. It's the 17th Tatooine-like planet discovered, but it orbits its stars in a way unlike any other known to astronomy. Researchers will need more observations to confirm the planet's existence, and look for similar systems.
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1 month ago |
rnz.co.nz | Ellen Phiddian
By Ellen Phiddian, ABCWith nearly 7 million articles, the English-language edition of Wikipedia is by many measures the largest encyclopaedia in the world. The second-largest edition of Wikipedia boasts just over 6 million articles. It isn't French, or Spanish, or Chinese Wikipedia. It's Cebuano: a language spoken mostly in the southern Philippines. But Cebuano Wikipedia didn't grow with the help of thousands of volunteer editors, as its English counterpart did.
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