45,000 marine species are at-risk – what’s most vulnerable?
A framework for identifying the most vulnerable marine species will boost global conservation and policy efforts against anthropogenic climate change.
Looking after Pacific learners’ needs in the classroom
By 2028, it is predicted that around 17 percent of New Zealand learners will have Pacific heritage, with a huge range of cultures included in this group. It is essential...
Study reveals inequities in access to cancer clinical trials in Canada
People living in less populated, rural or remote areas are missing out on last-ditch but potentially life-saving cancer clinical trials, according to a recent study by a University of Alberta oncologist that puts the onus on Canada’s health regulatory bodies to ensure equity.
Invisible fungi revealed by their genetic material
How can new life forms that we cannot see be discovered? Using a novel method based on looking for DNA in soil samples, researchers at Uppsala University have...
Running Singapore’s Kusu Island with just solar power
The Singapore Land Authority signed a research collaboration agreement with Energy Research Institute @ Nanyang Technological University (ERI@N) in 2019 for the research, design...
The strange mechanics of pregnancy in one Australian shark
Biologists have long been fascinated by reproductive diversity in sharks, but haven't yet figured out why some sharks have placentas and others don't.
History researcher to explore New Zealand’s mineral wealth exhibitions
Dr John Griffiths, School of Humanities, Media and Creative Communication, has won the 2021 Alan Mason Award for Historical Studies which is awarded annually by the Geoscience Society of New Zealand.
UWA researchers awarded major share of competitive national grants
Fifteen scientists from The University of Western Australia have been awarded more than $23 million in the latest round of funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) to undertake new research.
SJTU Research Team Made Progress in Artificial Membraneless Organelles
Recently, a research team from the State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism and School of Life Science and Biotechnology, SJTU, published a paper titled “Formation and functionalization of membraneless compartments in Escherichia coli”
Most people can’t identify deadly rip current – UC expert
A new study has found that two-thirds of people who could spot a rip current in photographs could not pick one out in real life.
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