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Top Secret Teleporting
Thomas Symul describes the world's first demonstration of information
sharing via teleportation.
Fields of Poison
Julian Cribb describes Australian efforts to overcome arsenic
contamination of water in Bangladesh.
The Dawn of Farming on the Dead Sea Plain
Phillip Edwards finds evidence for the first domestication of
crops 10,000 years ago.
Agriculture's Origins in the Highlands of New Guinea
Tim Denham examines archaeological evidence that New Guinea was
one of the few regions in the world where agriculture developed
independently, perhaps as long as 10,000 years ago.
Lenses Fix Your Eyesight While You Sleep
Bob Beale profiles some remarkable contact lenses that adjust
the shape of the cornea during sleep, producing long-term vision
correction for myopia within as little as 10 minutes.
Breast-Feeding May Protect
Against SIDS
Rosemary Horne reveals that breast-fed infants are more easily
aroused from active sleep, which may protect them from sudden
infant death syndrome.
Use it or Lose it
Anthony Hannan finds that mental stimulation can delay the onset
and progression of Huntington's disease.
Lights Out for Solar Research
Andrew Blakers questions the systematic defunding of solar energy
research despite numerous successes in the commercialisation of
solar technology.
It's Getting Wetter
A meeting of almost 100 Australian climatologists has concluded
that the world is getting wetter as it gets warmer through climate
change.
Evolution, not Revolution,
for Gene Patent Laws
Stephen Luntz reveals that a number of reforms of the patenting
system are likely to arise from a public inquiry into gene patenting
issues by the Australian Law Reform Commission.
Poor Growth Prospects from R&D Package
Peter Pockley pulls together some of the pieces in the package that has disappointed most scientists and academics - other than CSIRO's chief.
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conScience
Iraqi Death Toll Amounts
to a Holocaust
Gideon Polya calculates the "excess mortality" as a
result of the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
BROWSE
Australian Instrument for World's Largest Radio Telescope
Successful Start to Asteroid Hunt
Jaw Muscles May Have Stimulated Human Evolution
Wallaby Genome Sequencing
Reprieve
Art from Stromlo's Ashes
Food Poisoning Explained
Twice in a Century Transit
of Venus
Leeuwin
Current the World's Longest
Infrared
Images Worth More than Peanuts
Early Test for Alzheimer's
Disease
Expatriate Wins Heineken
Prize
Test Flushes Marine Pests
from Ships' Ballast Water
Murrumbidgee a World Standard
Hormones Bad for Men's Hearts
Reef Research Reaches the
Solomons
Budget Fails to Please Environmentalists
MAGNET for Moths
JCU Plan for Tropical Science
Leadership
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