New Curtin research has shown how fuel reduction burning aimed at decreasing the likelihood of bushfires in Western Australia's South West forests have apparently increased fire risk.
Ecology
Mar 21, 2023
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Collaborative research across the country has shown that strengthening the relationship between the student and advisor can increase retention rates in engineering doctoral studies.
Education
Mar 21, 2023
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With the growth of the niche adaptive clothing market come new challenges for retailers, including making the process of online shopping more inclusive for people with varying degrees of disability as well as expanding the ...
Economics & Business
Mar 21, 2023
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Discoveries of aquifers—underground earth formations that hold water—often create excitement around their ability to ease water scarcity in a region.
Earth Sciences
Mar 21, 2023
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Beetles are champions at surviving in extremely dry environments. In part, this property is due to their ability to suck water from the air with their rear ends. A new collaborative study by researchers from the University ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 21, 2023
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Many households in Britain have felt the impact of recent food shortages or, at the very least, noticed sparse shelves in the fresh produce aisle of their local shop. For people whose next meal may come from food aid, not ...
Social Sciences
Mar 21, 2023
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A new nanobarrier coating could help protect ultra-lightweight carbon composite materials from extreme conditions in space, according to a study from the University of Surrey and Airbus Defence and Space.
Space Exploration
Mar 21, 2023
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Since its inception in 1921, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has officially promoted an atheist and materialist ideology. But belief systems in China are making a comeback—and this comeback is largely happening online.
Social Sciences
Mar 21, 2023
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Australia has 116 new coal, oil and gas projects in the pipeline. If they all proceed as planned, an extra 1.4 billion tons of greenhouse gases would be released into the atmosphere annually by 2030.
Environment
Mar 21, 2023
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With ice declining, bowhead whales of the Pacific Arctic are staying longer in the waters up north. A change in migration patterns could affect the bowheads' health and safety, as well as hunters' access to the subsistence ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 21, 2023
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