Protecting the Great Barrier Reef from the impacts of climate change, natural disasters and rising human pressures will be a key test of Australia’s ability to keep our natural environment healthy and resilient.
Environment
Jul 19, 2007
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A singing computer scientist wants to use cutting-edge technology to create Europe's first successful Internet choir.
Computer Sciences
Jul 19, 2007
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Rice University physicists have unveiled an innovative way of finding out how proteins get their shape based on how they unfold when pulled apart. The experimental method could be of widespread use in the field of protein ...
General Physics
Jul 19, 2007
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Usually, the synthesis of short protein chains (polypeptides) begins with the production of their components, the amino acids. But it can be done differently: In the journal Angewandte Chemie, Chinese researchers report a ...
Jul 19, 2007
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U.S. scientists have found female iguanas in the Galapagos Islands expend a lot of energy picking a mate -- and that can have very negative results.
Jul 19, 2007
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Robert Gilbertson, plant pathology professor at the University of California, Davis, will provide the update on the status of Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) after it was found for the first time in California. The ...
Jul 19, 2007
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An important clue to how anaesthetics work on the human body has been provided by the discovery of a molecular feature common to both the human brain and the great pond snail nervous system, scientists say today. Researchers ...
Jul 19, 2007
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GOCE, ESA’s first satellite dedicated to measuring the Earth’s gravity field, has been presented to the press today in Turin, Italy, before being shipped to ESTEC – the space agency’s research and technology centre ...
Space Exploration
Jul 19, 2007
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New research at the Georgia Institute of Technology could soon make that tangle of wires under desks and in data centers a thing of the past.
Telecom
Jul 19, 2007
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Finding a decent, honest mate is challenging enough without the added problem of reduced visibility caused by human-induced changes to the aquatic environment.
Jul 19, 2007
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