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Retired surgeon David Hunt fishes on Sydney Harbour

Sharks pose Sydney food-chain puzzle

Biology / Other

created Mar 29, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Three shark attacks in Sydney in three weeks drove newspapers and talk show hosts into a feeding frenzy and sent a collective shudder through the other species at the top of the food chain -- humans.





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Sydney harbors deadly diet for sea creatures

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 07, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Contaminated seaweeds in Sydney Harbour could be threatening the small animals that feed on them, according to a new study revealing that the harbour's seaweeds have the world's highest levels of copper and lead contamination.


Seals like it hot

Seals like it hot

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using innovative thermal imaging techniques and CCTV recording, a St Andrews academic has shed new light on previously unseen aspects of the life of seals.


Mercury pollution causes immune damage to harbor seals

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 21, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Methylmercury (MeHg), the predominant form of mercury found in the blood of marine mammals and fish-eating communities, could be more damaging to seals than has previously been thought. Research published in BioMed Central's ...


Suh Nam-Pyo, president of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

SKorean moves to turn science fiction into fact

Technology / Hi Tech

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 9

A computer screen that folds up like a pocket handkerchief, a harbour that goes out to a ship and a road which recharges electric vehicles -- it sounds like the stuff of science fiction.


PMH finding may help some tonsil cancer patients avoid chemotherapy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Clinical researchers at Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH) have confirmed that patients with oropharyngeal squamous cell cancer ("tonsil cancer") harbour a common type of human papilloma virus (HPV16), but also that such cancers ...


Plague on their house, but bush rats fight back

Plague on their house, but bush rats fight back

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sydney's native bush rats were unintended victims of a campaign to exterminate foreign black rats during a plague epidemic in 1900, according to new research by scientists who plan to reintroduce ...


Sulfur in marine archaeological shipwrecks -- the 'hull story' gives a sour aftertaste

Chemistry /

created May 16, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Advanced chemical analyses reveal that, with the help of smart scavenging bacteria, sulfur and iron compounds accumulated in the timbers of the Swedish warship Vasa during her 333 years on the seabed of the Stockholm harbour. ...


The African bushbuck

DNA clues to inform conservation in Africa

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created May 23, 2007 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tracing the evolutionary history of wildlife could improve global habitat conservation, a major Cardiff University study has found.


Indonesia's devastating 'mud volcano' could keep spewing for the next 30 years

Indonesia mud volcano may last 30 years: expert

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 18, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 3

Indonesia's devastating 'mud volcano' could keep spewing for the next 30 years, filling the equivalent of 50 Olympic-size swimming pools every day, a top Australian expert warned.


Experts warn over health check brain scans

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new study has voiced concern about the growing market for brain screening tests, which people can buy as part of a general health MOT.



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