All posts tagged "animals"
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661TechnologySmart collar to track your pet in real-time
CSIRO’s Data61, the digital specialist arm of Australia’s national science agency, announced it is developing a prototype smart pet collar in collaboration...
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662ScienceDevil vaccine research leads to new weapons for fighting disease
Community support for researchers at the University of Tasmania’s Menzies Institute for Medical Research and the Tasmanian School of Medicine has led...
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906ScienceScientists invent animal-free testing of lethal neurotoxins
Animal testing will no longer be required to assess a group of deadly neurotoxins, thanks to University of Queensland-led research.
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1.2KResearchPoo transplants to help save koalas
Poo transplants are helping expand koala microbiomes, allowing the marsupials to eat a wider range of eucalypts and possibly survive habitat loss.
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2.1KResearchThe bacteria in koala’s guts drive their food choices
World-first research, led by Dr Michaela Blyton, now at the University of Queensland, and Dr Ben Moore from Western Sydney University’s Hawkesbury...
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1.1KResearchStudy shows non-lethal impacts of seabirds’ plastic ingestion
An Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS)-led study of seabirds that had ingested plastic debris has revealed a range of non-lethal...
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776ResearchBirdwatchers highlight declines of seabirds off south-eastern Australia
Thirteen species of seabirds are declining off the coast of south-eastern Australia, a 17-year study by researchers at the Centre for Ecosystem...
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1.0KScienceStress and habitat linked to koala recovery
New research led by Western Sydney University Stress Lab’s Dr Edward Narayan, has found the psychological state of wild koalas and the...
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1.1KScienceBalloons the #1 marine debris risk of mortality for seabirds
A new Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) and CSIRO collaborative study has found that balloons are the highest-risk plastic debris...
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996ScienceThirteen mammal extinctions prevented by havens
A stocktake of Australia’s animal havens – conservation areas free of cats and foxes – has found that they have already prevented...
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The Higher School Certificate exams can be a stressful time for students and their parents, so the Bega Valley Shire Library has put together a series of support events we hope will help everyone through this particularly challenging time. “There’s a whole lot more stress than usual on the shoul...
Southern Cross University has skated up the Times Higher Education rankings for physical sciences, now ranking in the top 3% of universities globally for the subject ranking. The World University Rankings 2022 by subject for physical science now names Southern Cross in the top 250 in the world, an i...
Reducing uncertainty in how marine ecosystems respond to climate change will support more effective adaptation planning, a new ecological modelling study has found. Climate change caused by humans is a growing threat to marine ecosystems, with its impacts projected to intensify responses in marine a...
Charles Darwin University (CDU) has introduced new requirements regarding COVID-19 vaccines, making them mandatory for all staff. The changes are in line with the Chief Health Officer (CHO) Directions and also apply to staff who are usually located outside of the Northern Territory in other states o...
Cell fitness has been identified as a way of predicting health outcomes in COVID patients, according to a University of Queensland study. The study investigated a cellular fitness marker, known as hfwe-Lose, to identify sub-optimal cells in patients who had been hospitalised or died from COVID at th...
Monday, October 25th, 2021 at 2:17am
Southern Cross recognised as science heavyweight in global uni ranking https://t.co/fv6sbfpl9T
Southern Cross recognised as science heavyweight in global uni ranking https://t.co/fv6sbfpl9T
Friday, October 22nd, 2021 at 2:33am
Better climate models predict worse outcomes for future marine ecosystems in our warming oceans https://t.co/c1TxSFUltA
Better climate models predict worse outcomes for future marine ecosystems in our warming oceans https://t.co/c1TxSFUltA
Monday, October 18th, 2021 at 10:46pm
Cell fitness used to determine outcomes in COVID patients https://t.co/07HYxPms74
Cell fitness used to determine outcomes in COVID patients https://t.co/07HYxPms74