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Towards zero deaths, robot dozers, saving sand, Moon mining
Just another day for Brisbane’s mining pioneers Media call, noon Sunday at Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, on the steps of the Merivale Street entrance. Brisbane is hosting the World Mining Congress this week, starting Monday, with 3,500 delegates from 70 countries. We’re offering interviews and a media call at noon today to brief…
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A mobile stress test to fast-track aircraft certification
A unique Australian technology wins awards, and gets smaller, simpler and even more capable. Media call at 11 am Friday 3 March 2023 on the Defence Stand, Exhibition Hall 3, Australian International Airshow at Avalon. A technology invented in Melbourne can quickly reveal how stressed an aircraft is. It will help fast track structural testing…
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Making high tech medical gels with Australian spinifex grass
The birth of a new Australian industry, majority owned by Indigenous Australians Uniseed and Bulugudu have agreed to invest $2.6 million into Trioda Wilingi, a University of Queensland/UniQuest spin out company, to develop innovative medical gels from cellulose nanofibres extracted from spinifex harvested in north-west Queensland.
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How teamwork makes superbugs more deadly and drug-resistant
Posted for Macquarie University Written by Mary O’Malley, mary.omalley@mq.edu.au Some of the world’s most deadly and drug-resistant pathogens work collaboratively to become more powerful and infectious, a new study has found. Dr Lucie Semenec and researchers from Macquarie University and University of Newcastle have characterised for the first time the mutually beneficial relationship between Klebsiella…
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Fusion energy
Reactions: interviews available with Australian nuclear physicists at the Australian Institute of Physics Congress in Adelaide The US experimenters apparently have got out more energy than they put in in a fusion experiment, thus technically achieving ignition. This indeed is a breakthrough worthy of celebration. However, there is a long way to go. From the…
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1.2 million Australians living with eating disorders, a leading psychiatric cause of death
New national research centre to transform diagnosis and treatment, starting with perfectionism, genetics, trauma links, magic mushrooms and more Launch: 9.15am Friday, 28 October 2022At the Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, with patient advocates The Australian Eating Disorders Research and Translation Centre to be officially opened by the Federal Government today in Sydney…
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Human brain cells in a dish learn to play Pong
Live biological neurons show more about how a brain works than AI ever will A Melbourne-led team has for the first time shown that 800,000 brain cells living in a dish can perform goal-directed tasks – in this case the simple tennis-like computer game, Pong. The results of the study are published today in the…
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A 380-million-year-old heart
New Curtin-led research discovers the heart of our evolution Researchers have discovered a 380-million-year-old heart – the oldest ever found – alongside a separate fossilised stomach, intestine and liver in an ancient jawed fish, shedding new light on the evolution of our own bodies.
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Wow, wow, wow. Galaxies collide and tumble in a cosmic dance: Webb reactions
Aussie astronomers react to NASA Webb first images. Media contacts: Niall Byrne, niall@scienceinpublic.com.au, orJane Watkins, jane@scienceinpublic.com.au, Nearly 40 researchers across Australia are eagerly awaiting data from Webb for their projects. Many of them are available to talk on Tuesday about what they hope to see with Webb and about their reaction to the first pictures