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Why medium-sized animals are better built for speed

uqnross4 — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 02:06:00 +0000

Researchers have taken a giant step towards solving the mystery of why intermediately sized animals are the fastest.

19 December 2024

Corals depend on near neighbours to reproduce

uqnroock — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 00:27:10 +0000

A new study reveals corals must be within only a few metres of each other to successfully reproduce, leaving them vulnerable in a warming world.

17 December 2024

Tourism leads the pack in growing carbon emissions

uqnroock — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 01:01:26 +0000

A UQ-led study shows greenhouse gas emissions from tourism have been growing more than 2 times faster than those from the rest of the global economy.

11 December 2024

Biodiversity at risk in most rainforests

uqnroock — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 02:19:52 +0000

New research has revealed less than a quarter of the remaining tropical rainforests around the globe can safeguard thousands of threatened species from extinction.

10 December 2024

Biorobotics reveal the secret lives of bugs and bees

uqebla11 — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 23:58:15 +0000

Technology that combines infrared lighting, robotics and a retroreflective marker is allowing scientists to follow and film insects as they fly in their natural environme

5 December 2024

Coral adaptation unlikely to keep up with global warming

uqehalli — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 03:00:28 +0000

Coral adaptation to global warming will likely be overwhelmed without rapid reductions in global greenhouse gasses, according to an international team of scientists.

29 November 2024

Collaboration key to ultimate genotypes in plants and livestock

uqebla11 — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 02:49:40 +0000

��Ƶresearchers are setting the agenda for breeding high yield, heat tolerant and disease-resistant crops and low emission cattle with excellent feed conversion efficiency

20 November 2024

Fermenting a future for food in Australia

uqnroock — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 05:30:16 +0000

Forming a National Food Plan and appointing a food minister are among the key recommendations of a white paper into growing a precision fermentation industry in Australia

18 November 2024

The COP29 climate talks are about to kick off in Baku, Azerbaijan

uqnroock — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 03:53:01 +0000

Here's what to expect as the next major United Nations meeting on climate change, known as COP29, gets underway.

11 November 2024

Using weather radar to track Australia’s migrating birds

uqnross4 — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 04:34:20 +0000

For the first time, scientists have used data from weather radar not to track storms, but to count birds as they travel across Australian skies.

28 October 2024