Researchers at Kobe University's Biosignal Research Center have successfully developed plants that can be used to detect organic pollutants, such as polychlorinated biphenyls and endocrine-disrupting chemicals, which contaminate ...
Environment
Sep 6, 2021
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If you open a biology textbook and run through the images depicting how DNA is organized in the cell's nucleus, chances are you'll start feeling hungry; the chains of DNA would seem like a bowl of ramen: long strings floating ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 6, 2021
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The findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggest Australia may have to jettison tracts of the bush unless there is a massive investment in climate-change adaptation and planning.
Ecology
Sep 6, 2021
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New research undertaken for this week's National Summit on Women's Safety finds violence and unwanted sexual activity are far more common among young women experiencing financial hardship than women who are not.
Social Sciences
Sep 6, 2021
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A sudden rule change by the Australian Research Council—to ban grant applications that cite preprint material—has deemed 32 early and mid-career researchers ineligible to receive critical funding.
Other
Sep 6, 2021
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A supernova is a brilliant end to a giant star. For a brief moment of cosmic time, a star makes one last effort to keep shining, only to fade and collapse on itself. The end result is either a neutron star or a stellar-mass ...
Astronomy
Sep 6, 2021
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Scientists have discovered that the humble blue-tongue lizard is largely resistant to the venom of the deadly red-bellied black snake, while giant carnivorous monitor lizards which feed on Australia's most venomous snakes ...
Evolution
Sep 6, 2021
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As a scientist studying lead poisoning in children once remarked: "it took two years to put lead into gasoline and 60 years to take it out". The consensus around leaded fuel's unacceptable threat to human health was hard ...
Environment
Sep 6, 2021
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UNSW researchers are teaming up with WWF Australia, Taronga Zoo and NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service to bring platypuses back into the Royal National Park—an area where they haven't been seen in almost 50 years.
Ecology
Sep 6, 2021
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Finding and collecting the best lunar samples will be a major task for the next astronauts on the moon. ESA's Pangaea training campaign launches today to equip astronauts with a geologist's eye on the moon—humanity's next ...
Space Exploration
Sep 6, 2021
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