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Pollution impact on global burden of disease undercounted

Diseases caused by pollution were responsible for an estimated nine million premature deaths in 2015, a global report has found.
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Technology
GC600 spectators the first to trial sun safe app

Burning rubber not skin is the key message QUT sun safe researchers want Gold Coast 600 spectators to remember this weekend (October...
144

News and Views
Uni to fight disabling tropical diseases

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has picked James Cook University as a partner to battle diseases that kill more than a million...
240

Research
Enzyme behind immune cell response revealed

Monash University researchers have revealed the role played by an enzyme that is pivotal to the process of clearing infection in the...
212

Research
Sex and gambling the winners in research competition

Better sex to get better sleep and the influence of gambling behaviours on families were the two research projects to take out...
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Medicine
Research funding success

La Trobe University researchers will receive more than $3.8 million in grants from Australia’s health and medical research funding body.
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New Australian-led malaria research powerhouse

Australia will take a leadership role in the Asia Pacific region in a new initiative to help our nearest neighbours get rid...
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Research
Lift less, gain more

The belief that lifting heavy weights is necessary to build muscles is being challenged by University of Queensland researchers.
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Who's Who
Disease research wins scientist prestigious national award

Seventy per cent of human genes are found in zebrafish and it’s this incredible commonality which has helped Monash University early career...
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$1.8M funding to tackle TB, Zika and other infectious diseases

Regional efforts to combat tuberculosis (TB) have been bolstered with a new research grant that will help minimise the spread of infectious...

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Get FactsFriday, October 20th, 2017 at 2:59pm

Researchers from RMIT University have used liquid metal to create two-dimensional materials no thicker than a few atoms that have never before been seen in nature.

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Get FactsThursday, October 19th, 2017 at 4:31pm

A University of Queensland scientist whose pioneering work has helped unravel the complexity of the human genome and genetic traits has won a 2017 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science.

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Get FactsWednesday, October 18th, 2017 at 4:37pm

100 million years ago two super-dense neutron stars violently merged into one, sending out a burst of radiation and gravitational waves, ripples in space and time, that have been travelling through the Universe ever since.

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Get FactsTuesday, October 17th, 2017 at 4:29pm

Young people are almost twice as likely to need social welfare payments if their parents have a history of receiving such assistance themselves, according to new research from the University of Melbourne.

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Get FactsMonday, October 16th, 2017 at 4:29pm

A new world-class medicines manufacturing centre in Melbourne will provide a major boost in the export of medicines manufactured in Victoria.

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Get FactsFriday, October 13th, 2017 at 3:58pm

Fanged kangaroos – an extinct family of small fanged Australian kangaroos – might have survived at least five million years longer than previously thought.

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Get FactsThursday, October 12th, 2017 at 2:59pm

An Australian Research Council (ARC) grant will give students and researchers access to a unique high-end system to help them analyse complex biological systems and big datasets.

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Get FactsWednesday, October 11th, 2017 at 5:27pm

On Saturday, 14 October 2017, from 10.30am at Redcliffe, members of the public can join University of Queensland Centre for Marine Science Director Ian Tibbetts and staff for UQ’s free second Biodiversity Roadshow.

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Get FactsTuesday, October 10th, 2017 at 3:04pm

The belief that lifting heavy weights is necessary to build muscles is being challenged by University of Queensland researchers.

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Get FactsMonday, October 9th, 2017 at 4:35pm

Researchers from Sydney’s Garvan Institute and the UK have developed a glow-in-the-dark ‘biosensor mouse’ that offers a real-time readout of the rapidly changing “skeleton” within cells.

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Friday, October 20th, 2017 at 1:03pm
GC600 spectators the first to trial sun safe #app https://t.co/ceelXBltO4 #technology #health
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Friday, October 20th, 2017 at 11:37am
Liquid metal discovery https://t.co/est0tas9V1 #Chemistry #metal
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Friday, October 20th, 2017 at 8:36am
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All posts tagged "health"

Pollution impact on global burden of disease undercounted

GC600 spectators the first to trial sun safe app

Uni to fight disabling tropical diseases

Enzyme behind immune cell response revealed

Sex and gambling the winners in research competition

Research funding success

New Australian-led malaria research powerhouse

Lift less, gain more

Disease research wins scientist prestigious national award

$1.8M funding to tackle TB, Zika and other infectious diseases

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Pollution impact on global burden of disease undercounted

GC600 spectators the first to trial sun safe app

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Pollution impact on global burden of disease undercounted

GC600 spectators the first to trial sun safe app

Search for the next round of Indigenous STEM leaders

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Study to capture trickster phenomenon