A team of Victorian researchers have discovered how to track if lung tumours respond during a course of treatment. Trials with five patients revealed that some tumours responded quickly to treatment …
Life beneath the sheets: 9000 years in the dark
Researchers at Geoscience Australia have unravelled the development of a unique seafloor community thriving in complete darkness below the giant ice sheets of Antarctica. The community beneath the …
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How lobsters create their colours
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 …
Not enough carbon to light the early Universe
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 …
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Dinner for tuna: tracking tuna dining habits across the Indian Ocean
Sophie Bestley catching tuna, photo credit Thor Carter, CSIRO Issued on World Oceans Day Southern bluefin tuna can’t even have a quiet snack without CSIRO researchers knowing. They’ve developed a …
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Ancient eruptions warn of climate change and mass extinctions
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. …
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