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Is a Fitbit a reliable way to track sleep?
Craft Web: re-enact invention of Web
Detours may make batteries better
Applications open for community-engaged learning grants
Rice University launches bold climate change initiative with Shell
Cat or cats? How language rules affect learning in children
Sydney’s newest museum reaches a major milestone
Dendrites filtering neuron’s excitement
Health sector unites to turn tide on medicine safety
NTU scientists uncover structure of key pneumonia virus enzyme
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Essential oil poisoning calls on rise, children most affected
Job seekers who lie to get job are more likely to be ‘problem’ employees
$3m to strengthen Centenary Institute research
USQ study packs a punch: science behind martial arts
Free Otago clinic provides life-changing dental care for patients
Experts to examine Darwin hot spots
Ancient worm reveals way to destroy toxic cells in Huntington’s disease
Novel polymer to increase energy density, stability of lithium ion batteries
Monash receives largest share of federal medical research funding
Researchers add order to polymer gels
Novel way to ID disease-resistance genes in chocolate-producing trees found
Genetic typing of a bacterium with biotechnological potential
Third call for Dioscuri Centres
UK among countries threatening overseas species through renewable energy demand
Improved pH probes may help towards cancer treatments
Water metering can reduce consumption by a fifth but only high income households gain financially
Breakthrough Made in Detecting Carbon Impurities in Gallium Nitride Atoms via Light
Developing world’s first AI system to detect bridge deterioration
Could level 2 water restrictions drive up prices?
Innovative heating & cooling products tested in living labs
Alternatives to State foster care need to be seriously considered, Otago researcher says
First-year University course shines a light on language-based discrimination
Otago research reveals past rapid Antarctic ice loss due to ocean warming
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Gulf Coast corals face catastrophe
Artificial cells act more like real thing
University researcher creates space for children to talk about serious issues
Physical forces affect bacteria’s toxin resistance, study finds
Transition to renewable energy needs to consider global threat to species
Weight change between pregnancies is linked to having premature and large at birth babies
Rich, Poor and Social Cooperation
NUS Law launches new Centre for Technology, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & Law
Household drug may give small babies a better start to life
Improving life support by de-stressing blood cells
Mobile devices blur work and personal privacy raising cyber risks: QUT researcher
New eDNA tool research helps scientists find deep sea corals