With a human death rate over 50 per cent and an ability to cross species, the Hendra virus that emerged in 1994 had frightening potential.
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Yearly Archives: 2015
How flies can help us predict the future
Our planet’s climate is changing. How will bees cope—will they still be able to pollinate our crops? Will dengue and malaria-carrying mosquitoes spread south?
Clean water with crystals
Cara Doherty has a vision for a new manufacturing industry for Australia. She works with crystals that are packed with nothing.
Worm spit that heals then kills
Cairns researchers have discovered a wound-healing and cancer-causing hormone in the spit of a liver worm that lives in over nine million people and infects adventurous Australian tourists.
Future fuels will come in orange flavour
Queensland researchers are persuading baker’s yeast to produce jet fuel from sugar.
How do bees choose a new home?
Not all honeybee species think like the common western hive bee when it comes to deciding on a place to nest. Some are capable of making faster collective decisions, according to James Makinson and his University of Sydney and Thai university colleagues.
Floaties for choppers
Helicopters sink. Quickly. Not any more.
Acid oceans and a symphony
The oceans around East Antarctica are becoming acidic at a faster rate than expected, and could become toxic to some forms of marine life in the next 15 years.
Jetlag skin patch may prevent brain damage in newborns
Melatonin patches could help improve the outcome for babies starved of oxygen at birth, says James Aridas from Monash University.
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Boosting the libido of prostate cancer survivors
Perth researchers have shown that twice-weekly exercise can improve sexual function in prostate cancer patients by 50 per cent.
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