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World's Most Painful Sting Revealed, And It's Not What You Think
From the bullet ant of the Amazon to the tiny but devastating Irukandji jellyfish of Australian waters, scientists and self-experimenting adventurers have mapped the world's most excruciating stings.
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Watch: Scientists Teach Human Brain Cells In Petri Dish To Play Doom
Melbourne startup Cortical Labs uses 200,000 human brain cells in a petri dish to play Doom by translating game data into electrical signals.
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Lung Cancer: Australian Scientists Map Cancer Cells To Predict Treatment Response
Scientists in Australia have mapped the "neighbourhoods" of lung cancer cells and found that cell metabolism plays a key role in determining how patients respond to immunotherapy.
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Australian Scientists Use Bacteria As "Living Medicines" To Kill Cancer Cells
Broadly speaking, bacteria can activate the bodys immune system to attack cancer cells.
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Meteorite May Have Hit Moving Car in Australia, Scientists Investigate
A South Australian man’s car windshield was struck and melted by a mysterious object, prompting an investigation by the South Australian Museum. If confirmed as a meteorite, it would be the first known instance of one hitting a moving vehicle. Experts say only lab analyses can determine whether it was a rock or space debris.
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Ostrich, Emu Ancestors Could Fly, Scientists Discover
It may sound like a joke, but scientists have long been puzzled by how the family of birds that includes African ostriches, Australian emus and cassowaries, New Zealand kiwis and South American rheas spread across the world -- given that none of them
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Australia Approves First Vaccine To Protect Koalas From Chlamydia
A vaccine to protect Australia's koalas against chlamydia has been approved for the first time, a move that scientists believe could stop the spread of the deadly disease that has ravaged populations of the beloved endangered marsupial.
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Hope For Skin Disease Patients As Scientists Grow World's 1st Human Skin In Lab
In a first, a team of Australian scientists has grown the world's first fully functioning lab-made human skin with its own blood supply. The advance may pave the way for better treatment of skin diseases, burns, and grafts.
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Hong Kong Scientist Puts Up Nest Boxes To Save Endangered Cockatoos
Above the teeming shopping streets of Hong Kong's Causeway Bay district, a fight to save one of the world's most endangered species is unfolding high in the branches of a decades-old cotton tree.
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Australian Researchers Develop AI Model That Turns Brainwaves Into Words
The AI model uses deep learning to translate the brain signals from EEG into specific words.
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World's Most Painful Sting Revealed, And It's Not What You Think
From the bullet ant of the Amazon to the tiny but devastating Irukandji jellyfish of Australian waters, scientists and self-experimenting adventurers have mapped the world's most excruciating stings.
-
Watch: Scientists Teach Human Brain Cells In Petri Dish To Play Doom
Melbourne startup Cortical Labs uses 200,000 human brain cells in a petri dish to play Doom by translating game data into electrical signals.
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Lung Cancer: Australian Scientists Map Cancer Cells To Predict Treatment Response
Scientists in Australia have mapped the "neighbourhoods" of lung cancer cells and found that cell metabolism plays a key role in determining how patients respond to immunotherapy.
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Australian Scientists Use Bacteria As "Living Medicines" To Kill Cancer Cells
Broadly speaking, bacteria can activate the bodys immune system to attack cancer cells.
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Meteorite May Have Hit Moving Car in Australia, Scientists Investigate
A South Australian man’s car windshield was struck and melted by a mysterious object, prompting an investigation by the South Australian Museum. If confirmed as a meteorite, it would be the first known instance of one hitting a moving vehicle. Experts say only lab analyses can determine whether it was a rock or space debris.
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Ostrich, Emu Ancestors Could Fly, Scientists Discover
It may sound like a joke, but scientists have long been puzzled by how the family of birds that includes African ostriches, Australian emus and cassowaries, New Zealand kiwis and South American rheas spread across the world -- given that none of them
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Australia Approves First Vaccine To Protect Koalas From Chlamydia
A vaccine to protect Australia's koalas against chlamydia has been approved for the first time, a move that scientists believe could stop the spread of the deadly disease that has ravaged populations of the beloved endangered marsupial.
-
Hope For Skin Disease Patients As Scientists Grow World's 1st Human Skin In Lab
In a first, a team of Australian scientists has grown the world's first fully functioning lab-made human skin with its own blood supply. The advance may pave the way for better treatment of skin diseases, burns, and grafts.
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Hong Kong Scientist Puts Up Nest Boxes To Save Endangered Cockatoos
Above the teeming shopping streets of Hong Kong's Causeway Bay district, a fight to save one of the world's most endangered species is unfolding high in the branches of a decades-old cotton tree.
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Australian Researchers Develop AI Model That Turns Brainwaves Into Words
The AI model uses deep learning to translate the brain signals from EEG into specific words.
