Researchers revisiting a 1980s Victorian trial found heavily thinned mountain ash stored as much wood carbon as unlogged forest, or more, after 30 years. That gives the protect-or-clearfell argument a tested middle option, on evidence from one site that counts only carbon in wood.
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University of Melbourne researchers found native gardens on Merri-bek nature strips carried seven times the insects of lawn and about twice the species. Councils funding verge planting now have a field measurement to weigh, taken on one municipality's streets.
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Three researchers from the TMOS research centre argue in Nature Photonics that 2D materials could make fixed quantum photonic chips reprogrammable. Their case is firmest for switches, since they concede ultrathin light sources still trail quantum dots on brightness and purity.
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Michel Raymond's team modelled whether unrecorded losses of male embryos could produce the pattern seen in eight populations, and the share of fertilised eggs the model demands sits well above the rate clinics record.
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The TMOS-led screen holds its brightness gain steady as the angle of the incoming light changes, so fine detail survives in the converted image. The prototype still needs infrared shone on the scene.
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Melbourne and ANU researchers mapped inundation onto property registers under a mid-range warming scenario, then held storm intensity constant and left erosion out, which is why $855 billion is a floor.
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After four or five years of cultures that would not grow, a UNSW-led team finally had something it could image. The result gives eukaryogenesis a living analogue for the stage before one cell ended up inside another.
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Two mandatory psychology units lost their in-person classes this semester and kept their fee, which makes Macquarie an early read on whether students will pay the same money for teaching a machine now handles.
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A Rutgers-led study of 122 people found synaptic loss that follows the brain's chemistry and wiring, not a diffuse smear, and modelling points to a left frontal starting point.
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South Africa pulled a draft national AI policy over invented citations, and Deloitte refunded part of a A$440,000 report for the same defect. The failure was institutional, not personal.
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- Hype gap+18
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- Confidence41