

Alice Klein
Australia reporter
Bio
Alice Klein is a reporter based in Sydney who mainly writes about health, biology and the environment. She has a PhD in chemistry from the University of Sydney and has worked as a staff journalist at 51¶¯Âþ since 2016, after previously working as a reporter at Australian Doctor.
Alice has won several awards. In 2024, she won the UK Medical Journalists' Association’s Gordon McVie Cancer Reporting Award for her article about genetically-engineered bacteria for treating cancer, and was shortlisted for the same prize in 2023 for her piece on personalised cancer vaccines. In 2021, she won the Association of British Science Writers’ Feature of the Year Award for her article about miscarriage. She has won three journalism awards from the National Press Club of Australia, including one for her 2018 article about treating addiction. She has also won journalism awards from the Royal College of Pathologists Australasia and the Society of Publishers in Asia. Her work has been featured several times in the Best Australian Science Writing Anthology, including her story about polycystic ovary syndrome in 2023.
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Life
Europe’s cave bears may have died out because of their large sinuses
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Health
Which covid-19 patients will get a ventilator if there's a shortage?
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Humans
Farming and art arose in New Guinea at same time as Europe and Asia
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Health
Australia axes overseas travel and large gatherings to slow covid-19
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Life
Bacteria sacrifice themselves when under attack to save their colonies
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Health
Smoking bans don't prevent you having to breathe in smoke particles
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Mind
We process a song's lyric and melody on different sides of the brain
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Space
China’s rover has discovered what lies beneath the moon’s far side
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Health
Babies are more likely to be conceived in autumn but we don’t know why
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Humans
Ancient people tried to stop rising seas with spears or fiery boulders
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Health
We'll soon know if covid-19 can be treated with HIV and Ebola drugs
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