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Tuesday, 22 January 2013

Last October PhD student Katrina Davis travelled to Chile to start a project with the Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas at La Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.  She joined researchers Professor Stefan Gelcich, Professor Juan Carlos Castillo from La Catolica and Dr Duan Biggs, a post doctorate from the Environmental Decisions Group at the University of Queensland.  Katrina writes about her experience.

Dr Daniel Smale

Ocean heatwave decimates vital WA seaweed habitat

Wednesday, 16 January 2013

The decimation of a seaweed that provides vital habitat for an interdependent web of marine species off the WA coast, as a consequence of a record ocean heatwave, has been revealed in a paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B today (16 January).

Filaments of hot gas span 600 million light years in simulated Universe.

Former student's stellar $2M gift to boost SKA science

Wednesday, 16 January 2013

A former science student of The University of Western Australia has donated $2 million to fund a new research position that will help shed light on some of the biggest mysteries in the Universe.

Fishing off SW Madagascar, Photo by Henrich Bruggemann

'Wicked' problems devastate pristine Coral Reef

Tuesday, 15 January 2013

Human activity - rather than climate change - has been found to be the main cause of catastrophic devastation to a southern Indian Ocean coral reef system similar to Australia's iconic Great Barrier Reef.

Winthrop Professor Susan Prescott

International research into disease, water and oral health get funding boost

Tuesday, 15 January 2013

The global rise of chronic inflammatory non-communicable diseases; technologies to assess water resources in a changing climate; and reducing international inequality in oral health are three research projects that have attracted Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) funding.

Embryonic bamboo shark - Ryan Kempster

Baby sharks play dead to avoid predators

Thursday, 10 January 2013

A recent discovery about shark behavior by marine scientists at The University of Western Australia's Oceans Institute may help researchers to develop an effective shark repellent.

Winthrop Professor Jenefer Blackwell

Genetics discovery to help fight deadly fever

Tuesday, 8 January 2013

Scientists - including a geneticist at The University of Western Australia - are a step closer to developing a vaccine against a fatally infectious parasite carried in the bite of sandflies.

Winthrop Professor David Hunt

Inherited retinal disease research may lead to treatment

Tuesday, 8 January 2013

Inherited retinal disease is a major cause of vision impairment in early life - and a researcher at The University of Western Australia hopes a study in which he was involved will contribute towards the development of a drug-based treatment.

Study finds genetic collagen link to serious eye disease

Tuesday, 8 January 2013

A major national and international genetic eye disease research project led by Australian researchers has identified a family of genes related to collagen that influence corneal thickness and disease risk.  The cornea is the transparent outer covering of the eye.

View of galactic outflow

Vast energy flow detected at centre of Milky Way Galaxy

Monday, 7 January 2013

A million times more energy than emitted from a dying star's supernova explosion has been detected in a huge outflow of charged particles from the centre of Earth's Milky Way galaxy, says a study co-authored by a leading astrophysicist from The University of Western Australia.


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