Student Astronomer Uses Ingenious Method to Find Galactic Missing Matter
Distant galaxies used as ‘locator pins’ to detect ‘invisible’ gas cloud. Half of the universe’s matter is ‘missing,’ but PhD student Yuanming Wang has developed…
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A Threat to Business and Financial Markets: Misuse of Climate Data
Why businesses need the climate-equivalent of a ‘weather service.’ The findings are published in the prestigious journal, Nature Climate Change, and calls on businesses, the financial…
A Billion Years in 40 Seconds: Mesmerizing Video Reveals the Evolution Our Dynamic Planet
New research helps understand how plate tectonics powers life on Earth. Plate tectonics are responsible for the deep-carbon and deep-water cycles. Arrangement of continents has…
World-First Study Reveals Human Activity Forces Animals to Move 70% Further to Survive
World-first study shows episodic human events trigger animal movement. For the first time, scientists have calculated the global impact of human activity on animal movement,…
Secret of Australia’s Volcanoes Revealed: Why Has the East Coast Had Hundreds of Volcanoes Since the Dinosaur Age?
Australia’s east coast is littered with the remnants of hundreds of volcanoes — the most recent just a few thousand years old — and scientists…
Stellar Flares With a Chance of Radio Bursts: Space Weather Discovery Puts “Habitable Planets” at Risk
Stellar Flares With a Chance of Radio Bursts: The Weather From Proxima Centauri A discovery that links stellar flares with radio-burst signatures will make it…
Landmark Study: Cannabidiol (CBD) in Cannabis Does Not Impair Driving
Research shows cannabidiol safe for driving and THC effects fade in hours. A landmark study on how cannabis affects driving ability has shown that cannabidiol…
AI and Photonics Decipher the “Twinkle” of Stars to Make It Easier to Find “New Earths”
Australian Scientists’ Invention Will Decipher the ‘Twinkle’ of Stars Australian scientists have developed a new type of sensor to measure and correct the distortion of…
In the Eye of a Ferocious Stellar Cyclone: Bizarre Secrets of a Ticking Time-Bomb Star
While on COVID lockdown, a University of Sydney undergraduate honors student has written a research paper on a star system dubbed one of the “exotic…
Testing Underway for Novel DNA-Based COVID-19 Vaccine Delivered via Needle-Free System
Partnership to test SARS-CoV2 DNA vaccine in healthy Australians. The University of Sydney is testing a novel DNA-based COVID-19 vaccine with the goal of being…
Angels in Disguise: Angelfish Produce Hybrid Offspring More Than Any Other Coral Reef Species
There Are Many More Angelfishes in the Sea Why do some fish species form hybrids while others don’t? In attempting to answer this question, new…
Quantum Algorithm Developed to Characterize Noise Across Large-Scale Quantum Computers
Australian and North American physicists display rigorous, scalable diagnostic tool. Noise is the main obstacle to building large-scale quantum computers. To tame the noise (interference…
The Stars That Time Forgot: Remnant of Strange Dismembered Star Cluster Discovered at Galaxy’s Edge
Led by PhD student Zhen Wan and his supervisor Professor Geraint Lewis, an international team of astronomers has found a shredded globular cluster on the…
How Genetic ‘Fingerprints’ of First COVID-19 Cases Help Manage Pandemic in Australia
Genomic data from COVID-19 cases in the first 10 weeks of Australia’s outbreak proved vital to understanding the trajectory of the disease and has an…
A New Law in Laser Physics Could Make Eye Surgery Simpler – High Energy Pulses in a Trillionth of a Second
New soliton laser pulses deliver high energy in a trillionth of a second. By revisiting a simple type of laser, scientists have discovered a way…
Lock Up Your Pet Cat, It’s a Killing Machine
Every year an average pet cat kills 110 native animals. Roaming pet cats kill 390 million animals per year in Australia, including reptiles, birds and…
Light, Fantastic: The Path Ahead for Faster, Nanoscale Photonic Computer Processors
Australian and German researchers build modular bridge design for nanoscale photonic chip. Photonic chips have huge potential for the future of computers and telecommunications. Australian…
Scientists Surprised When They Examine Stomach Contents of Great White Sharks and Find Out What They Really Eat
Understanding how sharks feed is vital for managing human interactions. The first-ever detailed study of the diets of great white sharks off the east Australian…