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 […]
Molecules that are important for a developing fetus have also been shown to drive the spread of ovarian cancer in adult women, according to Sydney researchers. In Australia, one woman will die from ovarian cancer every 10 hours. The survival rate for women with the disease has remained at 30 per cent for years, as […]
