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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Five steps to a world of intelligent life
A path to cognition Five major changes in the computational capacity of brains have led to the world of intelligent life around us. That’s the conclusion of Professor Andrew Barron from …
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Bees make decisions better and faster than we do
Research reveals how we could design robots to think like bees Bees available to film at Macquarie and Sheffield, video overlay and graphics available. Honey bees have to balance effort, risk …
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A rare glimpse of our first ancestors in mainland Southeast Asia
Photos, video and visualisations available in Dropbox at https://bit.ly/3oSUd4L. …
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How good or evil are you when gaming?
Researchers have built their own computer game to test the impact of meters that show players the morality of their decisions. Two papers published by Macquarie University researchers reveal that …
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The world’s fastest industry standard optical fibre
Equal to more than 10 million home broadband connections Invented in Japan with Macquarie University support Images available for media use An optical fibre about the thickness of a human …
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How superbug A. baumannii survives metal stress and resists antibiotics
Work is underway into how science can stop the superbug A. baumanniii after research exposes a weak link in the deadly but poorly understood pathogen. Images for download The deadly hospital …
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