Science
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764$4 million boost for Australia’s growing citizen science movement
From classifying galaxies to counting koalas across the country, recording rainfall or your own sleep habits, citizen science projects give Australians the...
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744New protocol to collect dietary facts from faeces
Guidelines for collecting scat samples from marine predators have been developed to help scientists more accurately identify what they eat. The DNA...
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828Concern over parasites affecting honey bees
Scientists from The University of Western Australia’s Centre for Integrative Bee Research (CIBER) tagged 200 honey bee workers to find out how...
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707Talking science, sport and superbugs during Antibiotic Awareness Week
Superbug-infested waters posed a major health threat to sporting superstars at 2016’s Rio Olympic Games.
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813Science behind identifying ‘pest poo’
It is not the most glamorous of bodily samples to work with but researchers from the University of Canberra’s Institute for Applied...
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13.4KAustralia secures world’s most important space science event
Australia will host the world’s largest space conference in 2020, with thousands of international experts set to join local scientists and astronomers...
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12.1KAlgorithm has the word on US election
A University of Queensland computer scientist who harvests social media to accurately predict election results says he can confidently call United States...
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740Pantry Blitz brings citizen science into homes
The Department of Agriculture and Food recently celebrated the success of its inaugural Pantry Blitz which ran over four weeks, from 13...
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928Tiny Einstein is created in super-cold microscopic detail
University of Queensland scientists have imprinted images of Einstein and Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose on a super-cold microscopic fluid to demonstrate...
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829Astrophysicist wins 2016 Young Tall Poppy Award
Astrophysicist Dr Danail Obreschkow from The University of Western Australia was recognised as Western Australia’s brightest emerging scientist at 2016’s Young Tall...
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Lighting the way to awareness - Get Education
Hundreds of people are expected to join a lantern parade lighting the way to safety awareness at The University of Queensland St Lucia campus in March 2019. Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Professor Joanne Wright said the inaugural UQ Lantern Parade was part of a campaign to celebrate and reinforc...
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New research program to target reduction of falls in people with Parkinson's - GetSTEM
Researchers at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) have published encouraging results of their reactive balance training program that shows a 60 per cent risk reduction in falls due to trips and slips in older adults, in the Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences. This program is now being rep...
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Monash scientists discover key to predicting fitness of birds - Get Education
An international study led by Monash biologists has found that the length of a baby bird’s telomeres, the DNA caps that protect chromosomes, can predict its future fitness. Associate Professor Anne Peters, from the Monash School of Biological Sciences and Research Fellow Dr Justin Eastwood studied...
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Russ Yell: spurring mobility change http://getindustry.com.au/2019/02/12/russ-yell-spurring-mobility-change/
Wednesday, February 13th, 2019 at 2:18pm
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Creating R&D opportunities – your #ideas are the beginning https://t.co/S3sFNmSNuX https://t.co/AsSYJeqBzj
Wednesday, February 13th, 2019 at 1:56pm
New #research program to target reduction of falls in people with Parkinson’s https://t.co/x9bhNdkyJu https://t.co/gvV0OP7Dpr
New #research program to target reduction of falls in people with Parkinson’s https://t.co/x9bhNdkyJu https://t.co/gvV0OP7Dpr