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2015, Eureka Prizes

Floaties for choppers

July 8, 2015 Operations

Helicopters sink. Quickly. Not any more.

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2015, Eureka Prizes

200 divers changing marine science

July 8, 2015 Operations

The Reef Life Survey team has harnessed the efforts of 200 divers around the planet to create a unique global dataset that’s generating significant scientific findings.

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2015, Eureka Prizes, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

(Not) curing cancer only part of the story

July 8, 2015 Operations

Terry Speed accepts he’s never going to see the headline ‘statistician cures cancer’.

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2015

First vaccine and treatment against Hendra virus

July 8, 2015 Operations

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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2015

How flies can help us predict the future

July 8, 2015 Operations

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?

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2015

Clean water with crystals

July 8, 2015 Operations

Cara Doherty has a vision for a new manufacturing industry for Australia. She works with crystals that are packed with … nothing.

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2015, Fresh Science

Boosting the libido of prostate cancer survivors

July 8, 2015 Operations

Perth researchers have shown that twice-weekly exercise can improve sexual function in prostate cancer patients by 50 per cent.

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2015, Fresh Science

Worm spit that heals then kills

July 8, 2015 Operations

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.

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2015

Future fuels will come in orange flavour

July 8, 2015 Operations

Queensland researchers are persuading baker’s yeast to produce jet fuel from sugar.

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2015

How do bees choose a new home?

July 8, 2015 Operations

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.

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