Australian research finds little lizards learn very quickly. Young Australian eastern blue-tongue lizards (Tiliqua scincoides) are every bit as clever as adults, researchers have …
Exiled moons may explain astronomical mysteries
Australian and South American researchers posit wandering “ploonets” as unseen actors in distant solar systems. Moons ejected from orbits around gas giant exoplanets could explain several …
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Spinal cord injury? Tired? Get treated!
Melbourne researchers have found that 80 percent of people with quadriplegic spinal injuries have sleep apnoea. It’s having a big effect on their lives but they don’t know they have it, and they don’t …
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An island haven for frogs in a sea of extinctions
New Guinea is one of the only places in the world where frogs are safe from the species-destroying chytrid fungus. An international team of scientists has published a new paper that shows how to keep …
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Earth recycles ocean floor into diamonds
Most diamonds are made of cooked seabed. The diamond on your finger is most likely made of recycled seabed cooked deep in the Earth. Traces of salt trapped in many diamonds show the stones are …
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More safe havens for native plants and animals needed in NSW’s west
Location matters for species struggling to survive under a changing climate. A new study led by Macquarie University has found we need to provide more safe havens for wildlife and plant species …
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It’s not just fish, plastic pollution harms the bacteria that help us breathe
Ten per cent of the oxygen we breathe comes from just one kind of bacteria in the ocean. Now laboratory tests have shown that these bacteria are susceptible to plastic pollution, according to a …
Building farms and towers at sea to feed and power the world
As partners in the $329 million Blue Economy CRC announced in Launceston Macquarie University engineers will develop new technologies for ocean infrastructure as part of the Blue Economy …
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Macquarie University to link Australia’s future smart satellites
As partners in the $245 million SmartSat CRC announced in Adelaide this morning. Eighty-four research and industry partners are contributing $190 million investment in cash and in kind to the new …
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A polariton filter turns ordinary laser light into quantum light
Nature Materials paper Tuesday, 19 February 2019 An international team of researchers led out of Macquarie University has demonstrated a new approach for converting ordinary laser light into genuine …
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Trees remember heatwaves
An Aussie eucalypt can ‘remember’ past exposure to extreme heat, which makes the tree and its offspring better able to cope with future heatwaves, according to new research from Macquarie …
The Milky Way is warped
The first accurate 3D map of our galaxy reveals its true shape: warped and twisted. Background information and further images below. Astronomers from Macquarie University and the Chinese Academy …