Macquarie University researchers have developed an improved laser system that will help large optical telescopes to gather more accurate data.
Optics & Photonics
Apr 3, 2020
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Urban trees are an effective tool for reducing land surface temperatures for entire suburbs, and even cities. But as yet we don't know much about their localized effects, particularly in the places where cooling is most important—our ...
Environment
Mar 4, 2020
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Acinetobacter baumannii is a pathogen that creates serious problems in hospitals throughout the world. It causes opportunistic infections in the bloodstream, urinary tract, and other soft tissues, accounting for as much as ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 21, 2019
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The discovery of the star, known as S5-HVS1, was made by Sergey Koposov from Carnegie Mellon University as part of the Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey (S5). Located in the constellation of Grus—the Crane—S5-HVS1 ...
Astronomy
Nov 12, 2019
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They have been trialling their new method, which involves using Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) as a monitoring tool, at Macquarie's Marine Conservation and Management, and Advanced Marine Conservation and Management Master's ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 1, 2019
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Universities have always performed work that benefits the broader community. But in recent years there has been much more emphasis on demonstrating and measuring the impact that this work has outside academia, with impact ...
Education
Oct 24, 2019
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A group of snorkelling grandmothers is helping scientists better understand marine ecology by photographing venomous sea snakes in waters off the city of Noumea, New Caledonia.
Ecology
Oct 23, 2019
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With outbreaks of airborne diseases such as measles occurring with growing frequency, modeling how the diffusion process works in dynamic contact networks is an increasingly important research area for epidemiology. A team ...
General Physics
Oct 15, 2019
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Manta rays form social relationships and actively choose their social partners, a new study has revealed. Research published today by scientists from the Marine Megafauna Foundation, Macquarie University and the University ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 23, 2019
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The ability to observe how life works at a nanoscale level is a grand challenge of our time.
Optics & Photonics
Aug 16, 2019
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