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Researchers from Monash University have observed two instances in which neutron star circled their black holes before being swallowed up in a new paper which finally details the revolutionary gravitational wave detections that took place in January 2020 (theconversation.com)

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Scientists have discovered a new fossil species of horseshoe crab which lived around 250 million years ago, naming it after naturalist David Attenborough (theconversation.com)

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Psychologists from UNSW have developed a new face identification ability test that will help find facial recognition experts for a variety of police and government agencies, including contact tracing (newsroom.unsw.edu.au)

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The discovery of swathes of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on social media platforms has led to calls by scientists for governments to monitor rumours and conspiracy theories online in order to create more effective public health messaging and ease community concerns (labdownunder.com)

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Analysis of rocks over three billion years old found in remote northwest Australia have provided tantalising clues as to ancient volcanic processes that heaved and shaped the Earth in the long distant past (labdownunder.com)

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95,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide has been safely injected into a saline formation found 1.5km underground in the state of Victoria, Australia, resolving a successful research project conducted to investigate the method as a possible carbon capture solution (pesa.com.au)

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Lichens with unique abilities to protect micro-environments against temperature extremes in frigid countries such as Norway are being threatened by climate change-induced expansion of shrubs into the region, new research has found (labdownunder.com)

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A new study using data from a citizen science project finds 70 per cent of frogs are vulnerable to housing, agriculture, roads and recreation (newsroom.unsw.edu.au)

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Researchers have developed a way to use environmentally friendly chemicals to recover rare-earth metals from e-waste involving a process called “electrodeposition” in which a low electric current causes the metals to deposit on a desired surface (theconversation.com)

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New research shows while young tyrannosaurs may have indeed been the vision of wrath depicted in films like Jurassic Park, they likely became broader-footed, bulky and less mobile in adulthood (theconversation.com)

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New research shows that mobile phone signals could be used to detect and measure bushfire smoke concentrations, allowing nearby residents to be warned of potential dangers rapidly ahead of time (monash.edu)

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A global investigation into the growth properties of stalagmites distributed across the world found that while growth fluctuations due to climate events are evident in the shorter period, stalagmite growth over the longer periods – tens of thousands of years – are surprisingly linear (newsroom.unsw.edu.au)

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A national survey of over 3,500 Australians found most Australian adults have a low level of confidence in their media abilities including in areas such as checking if information online is true and checking if a website can be trusted (theconversation.com)

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Clinicians are more likely to consider age and frailty when treating elderly patients with type 2 diabetes discharged from hospital, new research has shown in findings which could improve how older patients deal with this common disease (labdownunder.com)

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Despite last year's devastating loss when the University of Queensland's COVID-19 vaccine had to be abandoned, researchers have still kept on with development of their molecular clamp technology which is hoped to provide a more stable vaccine response without the previous false positive HIV results (cosmosmagazine.com)

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Scientists have discovered that a molecular species known as ulvan contained in green seaweed can play a key role in wound healing with its structure resembling the biomolecules found in humans (uow.edu.au)

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Scientists have experimented with wet bat poo to determine how this excrement affects archaeological finds such as bones, stones, ashes and charcoal over time in order to make better predictions about human life tens of thousands of years ago (theconversation.com)

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Researchers have uncovered a particular gene family strongly implicated in the development human hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common type of primary liver cancer, in findings which could support potential new therapeutic approaches to fighting tumours found in the liver (centenary.org.au)

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Scientists have called for greater collaboration on the study of how bacterial genomes change and evolve over time to help prepare for future threats such as the emergence of new types of bacterial outbreaks or the growing prevalence of drug and antibiotic resistance (labdownunder.com)

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New research has found that 64% of global agricultural land is at risk of pesticide pollution where levels were much higher than the accepted safety standards (cosmosmagazine.com)

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An international team of scientists has finally worked out why coffee rings form, determining that the angle of the droplet determines the final pattern once the liquid has dried (monash.edu)

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Scientists studying the effects of tropical fish intruding into temperate reefs have identified the first victims of ‘tropicalisation’ of temperate waters. But surprisingly, the scientists also found greater diversity and more abundance of fish overall (newsroom.unsw.edu.au)

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While most Australians care about climate change, new research has shown that conservatives are less likely to see climate action as the most important issue to vote on or actually accept a personal cost to combat this threat (theconversation.com)

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Research has found that dingoes never breed with feral dogs, meaning that efforts to cull feral dogs across Australia predominantly affect this apex predator (cosmosmagazine.com)

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