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Censorship 'just tip of iceberg'
Allegations the Australian government has pressured some of its top scientists to keep quiet about the implications of climate change are just the tip of the iceberg of scientific censorship, commentators say. 
Abortion pill debated this week
The abortion drug RU-486 is not like most drugs that chug through Australia's regulatory system.
Wikipedia faces crisis
Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia that its users write and update collaboratively, faces a crisis after a false biography raised questions about its credibility.
Salinity scare taken with pinch of salt
Ever since the telltale white scars started showing up in the Australian landscape some four decades ago, dryland salinity has been seen as one of the nation's top environmental threats.
Australia reconsiders nuclear future
Senior members of Australia's government are pushing for a debate on a home-grown nuclear power industry in a country that digs up and exports a sizeable chunk of the world's uranium but has long shunned nuclear energy.
Fight over 'open access' looming
The scientific body that was a pioneer of peer-review journals says moves to provide immediate and free online access to research could have "disastrous" consequences for science.
CSIRO goes for high tech and big impact
Australia's leading scientific organisation, the CSIRO, is preparing for a big change in its research priorities, according to a leaked report, and not everyone is happy.
Cervical cancer vaccine raises questions
Women around the world rejoiced when a drug company announced earlier this month that trials of an Australian-developed cervical cancer vaccine showed it was 100% effective.
Flu drugs may trip at legal hurdle
A bird flu pandemic could trigger global emergency licensing laws that order pharmaceutical companies other than the patent holder to make anti-flu drugs and vaccines.
Hobbits' long arms just like Lucy's
Hobbits may have walked the Earth with modern humans but their body shape and size are more like a 3 million-year-old from Africa known as Lucy, say scientists.
Drugs may be too late to fix bird flu
If vaccines and drugs are available too late to stop bird flu, then what can be done to battle H5N1 avian influenza if it spreads to people? Not a lot, experts say.
Why did CryoSat crash?
Authorities have launched an investigation into what caused a satellite designed to gauge global warming to crash into the Arctic minutes after its take-off in Russia this weekend.
Aussies' gut feeling wins Nobel prize
Treating stomach ulcers used to involve a bland diet, costly palliatives and occasional quackery until Australian researchers Professor Barry Marshall and Dr Robin Warren, the winners of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, opened the way to the first cure by antibiotics.
The hidden costs of biofuels
Concerns that the health and environmental impacts of biofuels haven't been properly examined have arisen following a recent Australian government report and a pledge to promote their use.
Public shies away from human cloning
The Australian public is a long way from accepting the creation of human clones for research, judging by submissions to the independent committee reviewing laws on cloning and stem cell research.
