New research from Deakin University has questioned the assumption that shark control programs designed to reduce the numbers of shark attacks on NSW and southern African beaches actually work.
Ecology
Feb 9, 2016
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Cyberbullying hurts everyone including the bystanders who witness the behaviour, according a bullying expert from Trinity College Dublin.
Social Sciences
Feb 9, 2016
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Around a fifth of the energy-saving benefits of fuel-efficient cars are eroded because people end up driving them more, according to a study into British motoring habits over the last 40 years.
Energy & Green Tech
Feb 9, 2016
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12
For more than 70 years, fossilized arthropods from Quercy, France, were almost completely neglected because they appeared to be poorly preserved. With the help of the Synchrotron Radiation Facility ANKA at the Karlsruhe Institute ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Feb 9, 2016
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Researchers in Valencia have studied the interaction of two materials, halide perovskite and quantum dots, revealing enormous potential for the development of advanced LEDs and more efficient solar cells.
Nanomaterials
Feb 9, 2016
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Factory managers can improve productivity by telling workers to speed up, slow down, or stop doing tangential tasks while assembling widgets. Unfortunately for synthetic biologists attempting to produce pharmaceuticals, microbes ...
Biotechnology
Feb 9, 2016
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Imagine your child requires a life-saving operation. You enter the hospital and are confronted with a stark choice.
Robotics
Feb 9, 2016
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More than 100,000 people a year die from hospital-acquired infections, and a Villanova team led by Associate Professor of Chemistry Kevin P.C. Minbiole, PhD, is doing cutting-edge research to help combat infections such as ...
Materials Science
Feb 9, 2016
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Cambridge researchers are studying what makes a brain efficient and how that affects behaviour in insects.
Plants & Animals
Feb 9, 2016
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If you are one of the millions of people who have listened to the podcast "Serial" or watched Netflix's series "Making a Murderer," you may believe there are innocent people in prison.
Social Sciences
Feb 9, 2016
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