Injured axons of the nematode C. elegans and other invertebrate species are able to rejoin with their separated segments, preventing degeneration and restoring the original…
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The coast of Balneário Camboriú in Brazil is an example of a coastal region that is under high levels of increasing pressure. Credit: Leonardo Felippi…
Artistic mural of the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA A “game changing” new telescope will be blasted into space tonight to embark on a…
Researchers find out how exercise improves learning. University of Queensland researchers have discovered an exercise ‘sweet spot’ that reverses the cognitive decline in aging mice,…
Associate Professor Bryan Fry faces off with a cobra at The University of Queensland. Credit: The University of Queensland The last common ancestor of chimps,…
Cracked phone screens could become a thing of the past thanks to breakthrough research conducted at The University of Queensland. The global team of researchers,…
A calculator to help people understand their risk factors for COVID-19First identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease…
Using the world’s most powerful radio antenna, scientists have discovered stars unexpectedly blasting out radio waves, possibly indicating the existence of hidden planets. The University…
Basaltic lava flow. Credit: The University of Queensland Lava samples have revealed a new truth about the geological make-up of the Earth’s crust and could…
Schematic of a superconducting circuit [thin black lines] on a silicon chip [yellow base], being imaged using terahertz scanning near-field microscopy [red beam focused into…
Aerial shot of deforestation in Daly River, Northern Territory in 2008. Credit: Julian Murphy/WWF-Aus The first comprehensive list of the threats to Australia’s most endangered…
Same-sex sexual behaviour may seem to present a Darwinian paradox. It provides no obvious reproductive or survival benefit, and yet same-sex sexual behavior is fairly…
“Wild pigs are just like tractors plowing through fields, turning over soil to find food,” Dr. O’Bryan said. Credit: The University of Queensland By uprooting…
‘Unshackled’ Palm-Destroying Beetles Could Soon Invade Australia – “We Thought We’d Outsmarted Them”
An adult coconut rhinoceros beetle in hand. Credit: Forest and Kim Starr A destructive pest beetle is edging closer to Australia as biological controls fail,…
Imagine you sit down and pick up your favorite book. You look at the image on the front cover, run your fingers across the smooth…
The venom of a caterpillar, native to South East Queensland, shows promise for use in medicines and pest control, Institute for Molecular Bioscience researchers say.…
A new species of large prehistoric croc that roamed south-east Queensland’s waterways millions of years ago has been documented by University of Queensland researchers. PhD…
“Now we can mimic the massive ‘experiment’ going on in nature — where these mutations pop up due to natural selection — but we can…
The virus that causes COVID-19, called SARS-CoV-2, is shown here in an electron microscope image. Credit: NIAID-RML Australia has recently seen SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that…