Giganto were the biggest apes that have ever been – 3 metres tall and weighing in at 250 kg. Related to orang-utans, and distantly to humans, they died out over 200,000 years ago at a time when other …
Record-breaking fast radio burst offers path to weigh the Universe
An eight-billion-year-old burst of energy has been discovered, demonstrating that we can detect and measure matter between galaxies. The discovery opens a path to using fast radio bursts to explore …
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Will the world’s mangroves, marshes and coral survive warm, rising seas this time?
Research published in Nature warns that rising seas will devastate coastal habitats, using evidence from the last Ice Age. 17,000 years ago you could walk from Germany to England, from Russia to …
Will the world’s mangroves, marshes and coral survive warm, rising seas this time?
Research published today in Nature warns that rising seas will devastate coastal habitats, using evidence from the last Ice Age. 17,000 years ago you could walk from Germany to England, from …
Patrolling honey bees expose spread of antimicrobial resistance
Insects prove their strength as environmental biomonitors Bees could become biomonitors, checking their neighbourhoods to determine how far antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has spread, according to …
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Solving rare disease mysteries and protecting privacy
Macquarie University researchers have demonstrated a new way of linking personal records and protecting privacy. The first application is in identifying cases of rare genetic disorders. There are many …
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