Tuesday, 05 March 2024 16:22
Boost for research, investment and innovation for Australia’s biosecurity
Gordon Peters
A landmark new initiative, Catalysing Australia's Biosecurity (CAB), will draw on cutting-edge technologies and digital systems to protect Australia’s native species, crops, livestock and food…
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Biology
Tuesday, 04 July 2023 11:34
UniSA team finds way to remotely measure chimps' heart rates
By Sam Varghese
Scientists at the University of South Australia have found a way to use a digital camera to remotely measure the heart rates of chimpanzees.
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Biology
A Melbourne-led team has shown that 800,000 brain cells living in a dish can perform goal-directed tasks.
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Biology
Google and CSIRO are using computer vision to detect damaging outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish on the Great Barrier Reef.
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Biology
Wednesday, 05 May 2021 01:42
Australian, Indian experts research opens new field of study to improve plant health, including food crops
Staff Writer
International experts from Australia and India have described for the first time how healthy plants appear to carry bacteria in their cells, opening what they…
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Biology
Tagged under
- plant health
- healthy plants
- Bacteria
- Research
- Study
- Australia
- India
- plant propagation
- food crops
- grains
- Grapes
- Fruit
- hightech laboratory methods
- endophytic bacteria
- plant cells
- Flinders University
- Professor Chris Franco
- Dr Pious Thomas
- Indian Institute of Horticultural Research
- Thomas Biotech
- Cytobacts Centre for Biosciences, Bengaluru India
- Flinders University’s College of Medicine and Public Health
Tuesday, 27 April 2021 10:03
Researchers use drones with thermal cameras in flying fox count
By Sam Varghese
Flying foxes, a species that are listed as vulnerable to extinction due to a drop in numbers, are being detected and counted using drones carrying…
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Biology
Sunday, 15 November 2020 06:57
Bosch, BASF to launch joint venture to sell farming tech
By Sam Varghese
German global technology and services provider Bosch Group and BASF Digital Farming have formed a joint venture to market and sell smart farming solutions.
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Biology
Monday, 02 November 2020 11:39
Australian researchers find bees that have adapted vision for foraging at night
By Sam Varghese
A team of Australian ecology researchers have found two species of Australian bees that have, for the first time, adapted their vision for night-time conditions,…
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Biology
Tuesday, 27 October 2020 09:20
Research team uses DNA analysis to help in catching ivory poachers
By Sam Varghese
A research team which includes a scientist from Flinders University has devised a means of analysing very small amounts of DNA to identify the origins…
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Biology
Tagged under
- DNA
- Ivory
- Poachers
- Nitchakamon Suwanchatree
- Phuvadol Thanakiatkrai
- Thitika Kitpipit
- Prince of Songkla University
- Thailand
- Professor Adrian Linacre
- Flinders University
- International Journal of Legal Medicine
- Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
- African elephant
- Asian elephant
- Sam Varghese
Tuesday, 13 October 2020 10:31
Agtech firm raises $267,000 in first week of crowdfunding campaign
By Sam Varghese
Australian agtech firm DIT Technologies has raised $267,000 in the first week of its equity crowdfunding campaign, with both investors and locals putting in their…
Published in
Biology
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