Nothing currently drives the international news and the US policy agenda more than Donald Trump's prolific, often controversial tweets. So, it makes sense that a team of international researchers, led by QUT, would examine them to determine his personality. By analysing his ...
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Since ketamine was first synthesized in 1962 it’s had various medical and recreational uses. Normally used as an anaesthetic, it has particular value in veterinary science due to its ability to sedate animals without suppressing respiration nor cardiovascular functions. Now researchers at the ...
More »Journals prey on Star Wars paper
Do or do not. There is no try. Neuroskeptic did, and the results were just as bemusing as Yoda’s famous line. The blogger for Discovery Magazine and the PLOS Neuroscience Community submitted a Star Wars-themed paper to nine journals known ...
More »Dogs are the new purist coffee
'Single origin' is a phrase you'd likely see at your local cafe, along with smashed avocado. Now, it applies to pooches, too. Researchers from Stony Brook University in the US have found that, contrary to previous thought, all domesticated dogs probably share ...
More »Pan-continental project seeks to break the Antarctic ice
As I spoke to University of Tasmania researcher, associate professor Elizabeth Leane, I could hear sighing gusts of wind in the background. "I'm looking directly at an ice breaker," she loudly voiced over the gale. By that she meant the Aurora Australis, a red, 95-metre behemoth ...
More »Non-profit education and training providers worst at protecting whistleblowers
Unlike Snow White's seven dwarfs, not-for-profit education and training institution employees may wish to think twice before whistling while they work. A fresh batch of results from the Whistling While They Work 2 project has been released, showing non-profit education and training institutions ...
More »British museum and others help WA understand its past
In 1699, William Dampier, an Englishman, collected shells and plants from the beaches of the rugged west coast of Australia. These were shipped back to England and ultimately displayed at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum and the British Museum in London. These ...
More »Did Adelaide Uni scientists just concoct clean fuel?
Not quite, but nearly. The scientists at the University of Adelaide, together with the CSIRO, have paved the way for it by developing a mechanism that converts carbon dioxide – the principal exhaust pollutant – to a synthetic form of methane. ...
More »Paleontologists discover kangaroo-sized flying turkey
It wasn’t a bird, nor a plane. It would’ve been a grey kangaroo-sized giant, flying turkey. A team of paleontologists from Flinders University have discovered the remains of five extinct megapodes – medium-to-large chicken-like birds with small heads – one ...
More »USYD’s brave new humanoid world
China’s largest consumer humanoid robotics company, UBTECH, has partnered with the University of Sydney to establish the UBTECH Sydney Artificial Intelligence Centre. Based at the university’s Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies, the centre is dedicated to research into intelligent ...
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