Ancient campfires reveal a 50,000 year old grocer and pharmacy
For the first time in Australia, archaeobotany has been used by researchers from UWA to examine charcoal from ancient campfires
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ASTRO 3D, Media releases
Closing in on the first light in the Universe
Research using new antennas in the Australian hinterland has reduced background noise and brought us closer to finding a 13-billion-year-old
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Six-legged miners strike gold
Termites and ants are stockpiling gold in their mounds, new CSIRO research has found. Australia’s smallest and most numerous mining prospectors can show us where new gold deposits are. Insects can carry gold from underground up into their mounds. Dr Aaron Stewart and his CSIRO colleagues have shown that they also accumulate metals in their […]
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Crocodile eggs measure river health
A new land management tool using Aboriginal knowledge Ngan’gi speakers know it’s time to look for freshwater crocodile eggs when the red kapok trees near the Northern Territory’s Daly River burst into flower. This can occur at a different time each year, but the environmental link is solid. A Darwin-based scientist has converted this link […]
Australian Institute of Physics, Media releases
Looking for life, dark energy and the beginning of time
Australian physicists welcome $2 billion win for science Southern Africa, Australia and NZ are to share the Square Kilometre Array
Prime Minister's Prizes for Science, Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science 2011
Puppets break the science language barrier: 2011 Prime Minister’s Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching in Primary Schools
Brooke Topelberg In 2003, Mrs Brooke Topelberg—only three years out from an education degree and just back from two years’
Women in Science
Five years of L’Oréal Australia For Women in Science Fellows
2011 marks the fifth year that L’Oréal Australia will award its For Women in Science Fellowships to Australian early-career female scientists. Since its inception in 2007, the Fellowships, worth $20,000 each, have been awarded to 14 outstanding fema…
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A little lupin improves the bread of life
In flour it reduces heart disease risk say Melbourne and WA researchers
You can lower your risk of heart disease significantly, just by using flour containing 40 per cent lupin beans in the place of conventional wholemeal flour, according to research by Victoria University dietitian Dr Regina Belski and colleagues from the University of Western Australia.
Over […]
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Bacteria munch up alumina impurities
Previously unknown species of naturally-occurring bacteria have the potential to save the alumina and aluminium industries millions of dollars while helping to reduce their impact on the environment, microbiologist Naomi McSweeney has found in a collaborative project between Alcoa, CSIRO and the University of Western Australia.