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Science & Tech News tagged with australia

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
- 29 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 )

Jenny
- 144 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
- 215 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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A Blacklist for Websites Backfires in Australia
Science & Tech  (tags: internet, websites, computers, blacklist, Australia )

Summer
- 241 days ago - time.com
If you want to reduce citizens' exposure to dangerous and illegal activities online, why not gather up all the URLs for sites that promote such acts...
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Biochar: Transforming Waste Into Renewable Energy
Science & Tech  (tags: technology, science, NewTechnology, Australia, discovery )

Michael
- 253 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
- 262 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
- 273 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
- 301 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
- 396 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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Australian Farmer Finds Mystery Space Junk
Science & Tech  (tags: space, junk, australia, satellites )

Ingrid
- 606 days ago - reuters.com
A cattle farmer in Australia's remote northern outback on Friday said he had found a giant ball of twisted metal, which he believes is space junk from a rocket used to launch communications satellites.
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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.
- 613 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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Milky Way: Bigger Than We Thought - Australia
Science & Tech  (tags: australia, space, milky way, planets, size, university, sydney )

Chrissy
- 644 days ago - abc.net.au
The Milky Way - our home galaxy - is twice as thick as we thought it was, Australian astrophysicists say. Professor Bryan Gaensler from the University of Sydney and his team have found that the enormous spiral-shaped collection of gas and stars is 12,000
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'Simple Discovery' Leads to Aust Science Breakthrough - Australia
Science & Tech  (tags: australia, university, scientists, wollongong, carbon, solar cells )

Chrissy
- 661 days ago - abc.net.au
Australian researchers have discovered a cheap and simple way to make sheets of carbon just one atom thick - a finding that has implications for a range of developments from solar cells to bionic ears.
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Online Hearings to Streamline Justice
Science & Tech  (tags: Australia, justice, technology, online )

Leone
- 661 days ago - news.com.au
NSW courts are going hi-tech with a $48 million computer system allowing some hearings to be held online. The system, known as JusticeLink, has already been trialled in some NSW courts and will be expanded to cover all courts over the next 12 months
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Australians Embrace Open Source Browser - Australia
Science & Tech  (tags: australia, firefox, mozilla, internet, microsoft, internet explorer, web browser )

Chrissy
- 664 days ago - news.com.au
THE proportion of Australians using Mozilla Firefox to surf the web is among the highest in the world, according to internet trend research. Firefox, the main competitor to Microsoft's Internet Explorer, is an open source web browser developed by the Mozi
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