Negative attitudes among Australian voters towards asylum seekers are driven by religious bigotry more than by racism or economic anxieties, according to a new University of Melbourne report released today.
Social Sciences
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Global warming could occur more quickly than expected, according to a new model by University of Queensland and Griffith University researchers.
Environment
Mar 10, 2016
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The human Go champion said he was left "speechless" after his second straight loss to Google's Go-playing machine on Thursday in a highly-anticipated human versus machine face-off.
Computer Sciences
Mar 10, 2016
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A heated controversy in linguistics in recent years involves a few hundred people deep in the Amazonian rainforest: the Pirahã tribe of Northern Brazil. Their idiosyncratic language has raised questions about how widely ...
Social Sciences
Mar 10, 2016
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Last month, the United States and 22 other countries agreed to the first-ever global carbon emissions standards for commercial aircraft. The standards, set by the United Nations' International Civil Aviation Organization ...
Other
Mar 10, 2016
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Common blight is a devastating bacterial disease. It greatly reduces the yield and quality of bean crops across the world. Conventional breeding techniques can be used to generate cultivars of common bean that are resistant ...
Biotechnology
Mar 10, 2016
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ESA astronaut Tim Peake took this image circling Earth 400 km up in the International Space Station. He commented: "Sometimes looking down on Earth at night can be kinda spooky."
Space Exploration
Mar 10, 2016
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The societies we live in can have a direct influence on how dishonest people may be, according to a new study from The University of Nottingham.
Social Sciences
Mar 10, 2016
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University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences researchers may have found a key to converting algae to fuel.
Biotechnology
Mar 10, 2016
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True to its purpose, the big NASA spacecraft that began orbiting Mars a decade ago this week has delivered huge advances in knowledge about the Red Planet.
Space Exploration
Mar 10, 2016
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