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While the cat's away: How removing an invasive species devastated a World Heritage island
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Jan 12, 2009 |
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Removing an invasive species from sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island, a World Heritage Site, has caused environmental devastation that will cost more than A$24 million to remedy, ecologists have revealed. Writing in the new issue ...
Lonesome George may not be so lonesome after all
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May 02, 2007 |
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A Macquarie University scientist has helped prove that Lonesome George, named by the Guinness Book of Records as the world's rarest living creature may in fact have relatives living nearby.
In Brief: Macquarie Banks eyes Telstra stake
Jul 21, 2006 |
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Macquarie Bank is reportedly interested in acquiring an interest in Telstra, possibly from the Australian government's stake in the national telecom.
Icebergs head from Antarctica for New Zealand
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 24, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Ships in the south Pacific Ocean have been alerted that hundreds of icebergs believed to have split off Antarctic ice shelves are drifting north toward New Zealand, officials said Tuesday.
Giant Antarctic iceberg heads towards N.Zealand: experts
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 12, 2009 |
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A giant iceberg twice the length of Beijing's "Bird's Nest" Stadium has been spotted floating off Australia and could be headed for New Zealand, scientists said on Thursday.
Taking the bite out of shark DNA
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Aug 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Extracting shark DNA has been somewhat of a challenge in the past, with scientists having to overcome the obvious hurdles associated with carrying out biopsies on live and rather uncooperative ...
It's all in the footwork: New research sheds light on parrot intelligence
Sep 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- You can tell how smart a parrot is by watching what it does with its feet, according to a new study by Macquarie University researchers.
Hypnosis - the key to unlocking the delusional mind?
Apr 02, 2008 |
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Researchers at Macquarie University have developed an original new approach to the study of delusions, using hypnosis to temporarily create typical delusional beliefs in otherwise non-delusional people.
Briefs: Macquarie plans to expand Taiwan Broadband
Dec 19, 2005 |
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The Australian bank acquiring Taiwan Broadband Communications plans to expand TBC's range of services for Internet and cable television subscribers.
Scientists Gain Important Insights Into how Brain Transfers, Processes and Stores Visual Information
Nov 07, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Just released research published in prestigious international journal Nature Neuroscience details the findings of an international team of researchers led by Australian scientist and Macquarie University senior ...
Net widens as more proteins implicated in cancer spread
Oct 02, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Authorities are on the lookout for 64 proteins believed to have been talking to well-known cancer kingpin urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (a.k.a uPAR).
Carbon dioxide poses risk to marine life survival
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Aug 06, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate change and the subsequent acidification of the world's oceans will significantly reduce the successful fertilisation of certain marine species by the year 2100, an international team ...
Scientists use bubbles to future-proof fibre optics
Nov 25, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- They're tiny, are rarely thought about by the people who use them, but are essential to how we access information, communicate with one another and live our everyday lives.
New study finds mums not to blame for anxious kids
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Mothers of anxious children are often concerned they are somehow contributing to their child’s anxiety by being over-protective or over-involved.
Orchid sexual deceit has male wasps in a loved-up frenzy
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Apr 29, 2008 |
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Orchids are admired by humans and insects alike, but according to Macquarie University research, one Australian wasp is so enthralled by ‘Orchid Fever' that actually he ejaculates while pollinating orchid ...
