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Ultrasound puts water back in the Murray Darling…

12 July 2010

You may not be able to squeeze blood out of a stone but—by applying the right amount of ultrasound during processing—Jianhua (Jason) Du and colleagues from the University of South Australia have been able to squeeze a considerable amount of fresh water from mining waste.

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Nano-sand to improve lotions and cosmetics

5 July 2010

Longer shelf lives for creams and lotions, and better control over how and where the active ingredients they contain are released. Those are the potential benefits of using specially engineered nanoparticles—so small that about a thousand of them could fit across a human hair—to create the emulsions on which such cosmetic and therapeutic products are based, says Nasrin Eskander from the University of South Australia’s Ian Wark Research Institute.

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Waste is a waste: Pigs reduce the burden on the oceans

10 June 2010

A biotechnologist from the South Australian Research and Development Institute has taken using “everything but the pig’s squeal” to new lengths. Through clever recycling of pig waste, Andrew Ward has been able to produce feed for aquaculture, water for irrigation, and methane for energy. His ‘waste food chain’ can be applied to breweries, wineries and [...]

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Dinner for tuna: tracking tuna dining habits across the Indian Ocean

8 June 2009

Southern bluefin tuna can’t even have a quiet snack without CSIRO researchers knowing. They’ve developed a way of tracking when the tuna feed and also where, at what depth, and the temperature of the surrounding water.

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From separating blood to separating copper

2 June 2009

The technology could help mineral processing plants to become more compact, highly efficient, and consume less of resources such as water and power, he says.

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Random noise to improve bionic ears?

27 August 2007

Some forms of noise can actually improve your hearing, University of South Australia researcher, Mark McDonnell has found.

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Bad eggs: more casualties in the obesity epidemic

23 August 2007

Studies by University of Adelaide doctoral student Cadence Minge have shown that a high fat diet can cause damage to eggs in ovaries. And when fertilised, these eggs do not develop into normal, healthy embryos.

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Female mice turn male with the help of a brain gene

20 August 2007

Edwina Sutton and colleagues at the University of Adelaide have been busily turning female mice into males.

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Tuna research in 350-tonne waterbed

16 August 2007

 Bluefin tuna use three times as much oxygen as other fish their size, making them more difficult to culture. That’s just part of the valuable information uncovered by University of Adelaide PhD student, Quinn Fitzgibbon and his colleagues in a study where they monitored live tuna swimming inside a 350-tonne “waterbed”.

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Brains learn better at night

14 August 2007

If you think that the idea of a morning person or an evening person is nonsense, then postgraduate student Martin Sale and his colleagues from the University of Adelaide have news for you.

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Why can we see what our cameras can’t? Video cameras learn from insect eyes

28 August 2006

The bane of all wedding videos-that picture of the bride in front of the window where her face so dark that you can’t see the features-may soon be a thing of the past.

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Reducing the killing power of strokes

21 August 2006

A research team at the University of Adelaide has found a way to reduce brain swelling, the most common cause of death after stroke.

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Surfing in Alice Springs

16 August 2006

(before NT and SA collided two billion years ago)
TWO BILLION years ago, the Australia we know today existed only in pieces. Northern, western and central Australia all belonged to different continents.

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