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High Tech Alarms Could Save Whales From Shark Nets
Science & Tech  (tags: environment, oceans, whales, sharks, Australia, Gold Coast )

Beth
- 639 days ago - crispgreen.com
Last year, six whales became entangled in shark nets designed to protect humans on Australia's Gold Coast beaches. This year, authorities are launching nets equipped with high tech alarms to warn the whales before it's too late.
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Scientists Uncover Creatures of the Deep
Science & Tech  (tags: Deep-sea life, Australia, Great Barrier Reef )

Albert
- 680 days ago - abc.net.au
Australian scientists have discovered bizarre deep-sea life hundreds of metres down in the seas around the Great Barrier Reef. Ancient sharks, giant oil fish, swarms of crustaceans and a primitive shell-dwelling squid species called the nautilus were
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James Cook University Professor With Evolution Missing Link- Australia
Science & Tech  (tags: archaeology, australopithecus_sediba, missing_link, SouthAfrica, Australia, fossils )

Thubten
- 777 days ago - cairns.com.au
THE scientific world is abuzz with the discovery of unique fossils, believed to provide the transitional link between man and ape, found in South Africa by a team co-lead by a James Cook University professor
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T-Rex's Long Lost Australian Cousin Found for First Time
Science & Tech  (tags: science, archaeology, ancient, T-Rex, tyrannosaurus, Australia, fossils, discovery )

Beatrice
- 783 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
''This is an exciting discovery because tyrannosaur fossils had only ever been found in the northern hemisphere before and some scientists thought tyrannosaurs never made it down south.
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HAARP - Playing God With Our Planets Future
Science & Tech  (tags: weather patterns, Australia, radar, meterorology, investigation, science, research, study, scientists, technology )

Sally
- 805 days ago - newsblaze.com
The article concerns the unusual appearance of inexplicable radar patterns that have appeared on the Australian government Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) website.
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Monster' Jellyfish Hit Coast
Science & Tech  (tags: science, marine life, ocean, sea, jellyfish, Australia, Coffs Coast )

Anne
- 826 days ago - coffscoastadvocate.com.au
They're big, they're wobbly and a little bit scary - and these huge jellyfish that have been seen recently up and down the Coffs Coast could be an amazing scientific phenomenon.
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Open Letter to the UN re "The Development of Nanobiotechnology & Nanorobot Hardware for Medical Applications"
Science & Tech  (tags: Biotechnology, Medical Nanotechnology & robotics, United Nations, Ethical Guidelines, Nanoarchitecture.net, Adriano Cavalcanti, Australia )

Feisty
- 942 days ago - cannxs.org
Adriano Cavalcanti of Australia's Center for Automation in Nanobiotech CANNXS Foundation Project wrote an open letter to the UN General Assembly, indicating that nanotechnology should be used for peaceful purposes based on ethical practices.
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Scientists Discover Three New Aussie Dinosaurs
Science & Tech  (tags: australia, dinosaurs, herbivores, carnivores, excavation, cretaceous, palaeontologists, palaeontology, skeletons, gondwana, queensland, museum, genera, evolutionary links, fauna )

Thubten
- 1057 days ago - abc.net.au
The two herbivores and one carnivore, excavated from the Winton formation, roamed Australia during the Cretaceous period - 98 million years ago
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Bonanza for CSIRO After Landmark Patent Win - Australia
Science & Tech  (tags: australia, csiro, science, bluetooth, wireless, court, technology patent, patent, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Dell, Toshiba, Asus, Microsoft, Nintendo )

Chrissy
- 1128 days ago - theage.com.au
THE CSIRO has won a long legal battle with the some of the world's leading technology companies in an outcome that will give a substantial financial windfall to Australia's peak scientific body. The case revolved around the CSIRO's patented wireless local
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Biochar: Transforming Waste Into Renewable Energy
Science & Tech  (tags: technology, science, NewTechnology, Australia, discovery )

Michael
- 1166 days ago - yass.yourguide.com.au
(Recipe for Biochar)Take any biological material, such as crop waste, corn stalks, forestry waste, paper mill waste, green waste, animal manures and human sewage. Partially burn it, using little or no oxygen, a process called pyrolysis.
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Dog Parasite Humans Could Catch
Science & Tech  (tags: Australia, dogs, research, study, scientists, humans )

Michael
- 1176 days ago - sciencealert.com.au
A study by Murdoch's School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences has found that almost 10 per cent of all dogs are infected with a parasite that can potentially infect their owners. The groundbreaking research is Australia's first national study of gast
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Protected Dingoes Stay Put
Science & Tech  (tags: research, environment, investigation, science, Australia )

Michael
- 1187 days ago - sciencealert.com.au
"The preliminary results of the study throw serious doubt on theories that dingoes breed in the protected areas and move into pastoral lands to prey on livestock," he says.
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View From the Lab: Continental Drift
Science & Tech  (tags: science, discovery, technology, world, Gondwana, tectonic plates, continents, Australia, archaeology, ancient, research, interesting )

Beatrice
- 1214 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
The scenery and species of Australia reveal how the continents have been torn apart and crunched together
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Giant Spider Caught on Film Eating Bird in Australian Backyard
Science & Tech  (tags: australia, discovery, environment, interesting, news, research, spiders )

Dan
- 1310 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
The pictures show the spider with its long black legs wrapped around the body of a dead bird suspended in its web near Cairns, Australia. The image is real. Sunstroke author David Kagan has written about new giant spider activity in Doomwatch Legacy.
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Earth's Ecosystem Has Been Complex for Hundreds of Millions of Years
Science & Tech  (tags: research, science, study, discovery, animal, Australia, ecological, ecosystem, fossil, Funisia, life, Neoproterozoic, organism, palaeontology, reproduction )

J.
- 1526 days ago - newsroom.ucr.edu
Palaeontologists studying ancient fossils they excavated in the South Australian outback argue that Earth's ecosystem has been complex since around 565 million years ago which is included in a period in Earth's history called the Neoproterozoic era.
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