Chinese-Australian research finds climate change good news, and solves an evolutionary mystery Baby turtles influence their gender by moving around inside their eggs, research has revealed. The idea that an embryo reptile can act in a way that affects its chances of developing as male or female has long been thought impossible, but findings by…
Australian-led astronomers find the most iron-poor star in the Galaxy, hinting at the nature of the first stars in the Universe. A newly discovered ancient star containing a record-low amount of iron carries evidence of a class of even older stars, long hypothesised but assumed to have vanished. In a paper published in the journal…
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 Cooperative Research Centre for Smart Satellite Technologies and Analytics, and the Australian government is contributing a further $55 million. The CRC is led by…
Images, video overlay, two case studies (rotavirus vaccine and TB in adolescents) and backgrounder available. Melbourne Children’s Global Health initiative to take action for the: Two million children dying annually from pneumonia and diarrhoea 8 million new child and youth cases of TB each year Mental health and wellbeing of youth caught up in global unemployment, civic unrest,…