Tiny implantable particles could offer a more effective treatment for glaucoma than eye drops, says a Sydney researcher. Glaucoma affects more than 60 million people worldwide, and is a leading cause of irreversible blindness. With the disease, the channels that normally drain the fluid from inside the eye are blocked, causing high pressure in the […]
Sydney researchers have shown how smoking while pregnant causes lung diseases in your children, and impacts their health well into adulthood. In Australia, 15 to 25 per cent of women still smoke when they are pregnant. “We know that maternal smoking is bad for children, and is associated with the development of respiratory diseases such […]
A technique that can match images and video to the device that took them, is being used to investigate cybercrimes. Developed by Dr Xufeng Lin and his research team at Charles Sturt University, the method exploits the unique traces—often referred to as the camera’s fingerprints—which the hardware and software processing components of a digital camera […]
Researchers have found the key to increasing the rate at which maize absorbs nitrogen in the lab, a crucial step in growing higher yielding crops while using less fertiliser. “Nitrogen is an essential nutrient for plant growth,” explains researcher Dr Zhengyu Wen from the University of Sydney. “Crops absorb nitrogen from fertilisers and the soil […]
