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Ingenuity innovators create robotic remote control solution to clear power lines
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Mechanical Engineering students embarked on a quest for their honours project to decrease risk to powerline maintenance workers, creating a robotic hybrid system that you can check out at Ingenuity!
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ECMS funding success in health and medical research
Two researchers from the Faculty of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences have been awarded a total of over $2.8million. Congratulations to our two ECMS researchers.
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Extinction risk of native bee populations increased by bushfires
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The number of threatened Australian native bee species is expected to increase by nearly five-fold after the devastating Black Summer bushfires in 2019-20, according to new research.
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Space tablets splashdown on Earth
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A batch of pills has returned to Earth after a year of being exposed to the environment inside the International Space Station (ISS). University of Adelaide researchers will check what the effects of some of the highest levels of radiation found beyond the Earth’s atmosphere have had on the tablets.
Buying bats on eBay? Your health could be at risk
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New research on the trade of exotic animals explores the public health risks and the impact on animal populations and forest ecosystems.
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New partnership to focus on carbon capture and storage research
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Chevron Australia is contributing more than AUD$2.45 million to support a new laboratory and new research positions in carbon storage engineering and science.
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Can we use urine to power batteries?
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An international team of chemists have come a step closer with a new catalyst for urea reactions.
Transcription factors controlling seed development
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Honours project: Participate in a plant breeding project understanding seed development in flowering plants.
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