A team of Queensland researchers have discovered that lobsters, prawns and other crustaceans have evolved a unique way of making colours: making the complex patterns appreciated by biologists and connoisseurs of seafood.
Their work will help with conservation, aquaculture and may even lead to a new food colourant. And all the colours come from just […]
An international team of astronomers has discovered the oldest and most distant carbon in the Universe, but there’s not enough of it to support standard theories of how the Universe lit up, a member from Swinburne University of Technology has calculated.
In the early Universe a dark pervasive fog of neutral hydrogen gas lurked everywhere. Astronomers […]
Southern bluefin tuna can’t even have a quiet snack without CSIRO researchers knowing. They’ve developed a way of tracking when the tuna feed and also where, at what depth, and the temperature of the surrounding water.
A Curtin University researcher has shown that some ancient periods of massive eruptions released green house gases so quickly that they caused rapid climate change and mass extinctions.
But today we are adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere faster than even the most rapid sequence of eruptions.
“We have carefully dated minerals contained in the volcanic rocks […]
Using this technology, Sherry and her colleagues observed a 70% reduction in tumour size in a cervical cancer mouse model.
…more than 2,000 feathers have been collected, some from highly threatened species, such as the elusive Rufous owl …
The technology could help mineral processing plants to become more compact, highly efficient, and consume less of resources such as water and power, he says.
Children aged between four and six who have imaginary friends are better able to get their point across than their contemporaries who do not
98 Nominations were received for Fresh Science 2009. Nominees will be notified shortly. Fresh Science will be held in Melbourne from 1-4 June 2009. Their stories will be relased to the media during the event and in the weeks after.