Mike McRae is a part-time Journalist at ScienceAlert. He has been telling science stories in one form or another for more than 20 years, and expertly navigates a broad range of subjects, from health and neuroscience to the weirdness of quantum physics. From classroom teacher to journalist, Mike has contributed to the CSIRO's magazines, The Guardian, the ABC and Australian Financial Review. He is the author of popular science books "Tribal Science: Brains, Beliefs," and "Bad ideas and Unwell: What Makes a Disease a Disease?" Mike is slowly building a collection of cephalopod tattoos on his right arm and swears there's still room for a nautilus or two.
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Human-made stuff now outweighs every living thing on EarthBy Mike McRae Published
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The fossil of a duckbill dinosaur has been found on the 'wrong' continentThe final chapter of dinosaur history is a tale stretching across two very different worlds, each a vast supercontinent dominated by its own unique mix of predators and herbivores.
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Female moles grow testicles to fight through their brutal underground existenceTo help moles fight in the brutal underground world, evolution has granted the female mole a generous dose of 'roid rage' by tacking some testicles onto her ovaries.
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More humans are growing an extra blood vessel in our arm that 'feeds' our hands, study showsScientists have found an artery that temporarily runs down the center of our forearms while we're still in the womb isn't vanishing as often as it used to.
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Scarlet fever is making a comeback. Bacterial 'clone' could be to blame.Scarlet fever seems to be making a comeback, and scientists have found a bacterial "clone" could be the culprit.
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How COVID-19 might sabotage the immune system of young, healthy peopleResearchers have identified a crucial immune system mechanism that could help explain why the coronavirus is so lethal for some people.
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First experimental evidence of a new type of dark boson possibly foundTwo experiments hunting for a whisper of a particle called a dark boson that prevents whole galaxies from flying apart recently published some contradictory results.
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Fate of Schrödinger's cat probably isn't in the hands of gravity, experiment findsCan we blame gravity for one of quantum physics' most brain-numbing paradoxes — Schrödinger's cat?
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