Indigenous Australians have conducted cultural burning for at least ten millennia and the practice helped reduce…
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Upending a decades-long theory of reverse osmosis water desalination
The process of reverse osmosis has proven to be the state-of-the-art method for removing salt from…
Motherhood negatively affects women's earnings for a decade, finds Australian study
A University of Queensland study has shown having a baby negatively affects a mother’s employment earnings…
Understanding the stability of photocatalysts for water splitting to improve hydrogen production
Hydrogen produced from renewable energy sources can be used as fuels that do not contribute to…
Metallophiles and their bioremediation applications
Certain species of microbes have evolved to survive in harsh environments, even those that were previously…
Preparing a renewable route to rubber material
A key ingredient in the manufacture of car tires and sneaker soles could be made sustainably,…
Tracing Earth's past in prehistoric rock deposits
What did the Earth look like about 2 billion years ago, when the planet’s atmosphere was…
Nanophotonic platform offers faster detection of dangerous pregnancy disorder preeclampsia
A new rapid test for the early diagnosis of preeclampsia, a potentially life-threatening complication of pregnancy,…
Using a ball mill to speed up sublimation for testing gas interactions
A team of chemists affiliated with several institutions in Germany has found that using a ball…
Researchers uncover new differences in bacteria's sugar coat to aid pneumococcal vaccine development
Many disease-causing bacteria like Streptococcus pneumoniae (S. pneumoniae) are encased in a sugar layer called the…