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Climate change and the need for natural resources are two big threats to the frozen south, say international researchers. Experts from around the globe, led by Monash University's Professor Steven Chown, have set out the current and future conservation challenges ...

UK research is a big beneficiary of the European Union but officials are calling for restraint in these tough times. Efforts by the UK to curb rises to the overall European Union budget are threatening to cut the €80 billion ...

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Thousands of chickens have been killed by a new virus caused by live-vaccine recombination Research from the University of Melbourne has shown two different vaccine viruses have combined to produce new infectious viruses. The vaccines were used simultaneously to control ...

If this year’s three Friday the 13ths have been unlucky for you, it may have been for a reason. For the very superstitious, Friday the 13th is one of the unluckiest dates on the calendar. Scientifically there is no evidence ...

The new vice-chancellor of Adelaide University, Professor Warren Bebbington, who took up his post this month, says the proposed merger with the University of South Australia might lead to larger class sizes and compromise teaching. Bebbington’s predecessor, Irish botanist Professor ...

Roads are on the research agenda for a southern Queensland university, as heavy rain is forecast to drench the region once again. Rainfall events in Queensland over the past three years have exceeded what would be expected for a one-in-100-year ...

Researchers have unveiled a project to share the thousands of years of indigenous knowledge and understanding of Australia’s landscape, plants and animals with the wider community. A University of Newcastle research team will look to develop and evaluate new ways ...

Researchers hope a supercomputer simulation of the common cold virus will help in drug development Melbourne researchers are now simulating in 3D the motion of the complete human rhinovirus, the most frequent cause of the common cold, on Australia’s fastest ...

Just when you thought technology couldn’t get any smaller, scientists have invented paint-on power Researchers at Rice University in Houston have developed a prototype liquid spray-on battery that can be painted on virtually any surface. The rechargeable battery features similar ...