QUT robotics researchers have developed new technology to equip underground mining vehicles to navigate autonomously through dust, camera blur and bad lighting.
Robotics
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Adam Rainear '16 MA is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences with an undergraduate degree in meteorology who served as a research assistant in the Office of the ...
Environment
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Which way is up in space? Planets are usually shown with the north pole at the top and the south pole at the bottom. In this remarkable image taken by ESA's Mars Express, the Red Planet is seen with north at the bottom, and ...
Space Exploration
Dec 14, 2017
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A collaboration of Belgian, French and British scientists, including researchers from Imperial College London, have developed a technology to detect a new kind of elementary particle: the sterile neutrino. The new detector ...
General Physics
Dec 14, 2017
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As concern rises about earthquakes induced by human activity like oil exploration, geologists at the University of Kansas report a new understanding about recent earthquakes in Kansas and Oklahoma. This breakthrough may one ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 14, 2017
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New research from the University of Birmingham and VIVID Housing Association has found for the first time a link between well-being and housing tenure – with social renters more likely than homeowners to have lower levels ...
Social Sciences
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An antibiotic candidate compound shelved in the 1970s in favour of more promising drugs could be worth a second look, new research has found.
Biochemistry
Dec 14, 2017
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Marine angiospermas are a unique group of flowering plants that have adapted to live completely submerged in the sea for 40 million years. They form dense, productive grasslands and provide a wide range of ecosystem functions ...
Ecology
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Gene regulation relies on complex structural arrangements and processes at the molecular level. One of them, called 'chromatin loop extrusion', strikingly resembles the quick-lacing system of some trail running shoes: as ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 14, 2017
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A neutral genetic mutation—a fluke in the evolutionary process that had no apparent biological purpose—that appeared over 700 million years ago in biological evolution could help explain the origin of complex organs and ...
Biotechnology
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