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🍑 A major sexual health clinic in Melbourne has seen a rise in women testing positive for gonorrhoea over the past decade, according to Australian researchers from Monash University and the University of Melbourne. The team analysed data from the clinic between 2015 and 2024 to look at the characteristics of women contracting gonorrhoea amid the rise in the sexually transmitted disease among women in recent years. The researchers say gonorrhoea positivity increased from 1.3% in 2015 to 2.3% in 2024. The researchers say the women diagnosed were predominantly young, had multiple casual male partners and used condoms inconsistently. Oral gonorrhoea saw the largest increase in cases during the study, they say. Most of these cases are asymptomatic and can only be picked up through regular screening, the researchers caution.

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Some Whale Sounds Are Too Low for Humans to Hear — Here’s Why 🌊🐋
Some whale sounds are so low-frequency that humans can't hear them. Discover how whales communicate underwater, how far their sounds travel, and how scientists record them.____read morehttps://tinyurl.com/yyxu25v8
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Barnacles stick to things, they pick a surface and they don't let go. They make some of the most amazing adhesive in the animal world, so much so scientists are trying to discover the secret.

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🥤Experts from across the country respond to new research linking micro- and nano-plastics in blood and heart attack
Read their comments here: https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/micro-and-nano-plastics-in-blood-linked-to-heart-attack

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Coriolis Effect ✍️

It explains why objects moving across a rotating world seem to curve from their straight path, even when no visible force pushes them sideways. Imagine throwing a ball straight across a spinning merry-go-round. To someone standing still outside, the ball travels in a straight line. But to someone riding the spinning platform, the ball appears to bend away from its path.

The same thing happens on Earth because our planet is constantly rotating beneath everything that moves. Air currents, ocean flows, and even long-range projectiles travel over a surface that is turning while they move. This creates the illusion of a sideways force, known as the Coriolis effect.

In the Northern Hemisphere, moving objects appear to bend to the right, while in the Southern Hemisphere they bend to the left. The effect grows stronger over larger distances and faster motions, but becomes almost unnoticeable in small, everyday movements.

Scientists use this effect to understand the spinning of hurricanes, the paths of trade winds, and the circulation of oceans. It reveals that motion is not always as simple as it seems when the ground beneath us is constantly in motion itself.

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Half a billion years ago the ocean was full of these now extinct armored animals who dominated the ecosystem for 270 million years. #science #sciencefacts #trilobite #armor