{"id":644,"date":"2017-02-14T09:05:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T22:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuttyscientists.com\/sydney\/?p=644"},"modified":"2017-02-14T09:11:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T22:11:00","slug":"nutty-news-february-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuttyscientists.com\/australia\/blog\/nutty-news-february-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Nutty News February 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to 2017 and another edition of our Nutty News. Summer 2016\/2017 seems to have gone in a blink of an eye but we are sure everyone had loads of fun while soaking up the warmth of summer. Check out what our Professors got up to in this edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/nuttyscientists.com\/sydney\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2017\/02\/Nutty-News.pdf\">Nutty News<\/a>. Till next time, here are a few things you didn&#8217;t know about&#8230;time!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One second used to be defined as 1\/86,400 the length of a day. 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