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Two tiny bones have lead to a large revelation about the origin of some of Australia’s marsupials.

Speaking of language in Adelaide

Before European settlement Australia was home to hundreds of languages belonging to the widespread and diverse aboriginal cultures, now teams are working to preserve what’s left of the dwindling tongues before the important piece of the nation’s heritage disappears.

UV turtle warning works

Scientists may have found a use for UV lights other than faculty rave parties, with researchers trialling the use of LEDs to keep turtles out of fishing nets.

Teams tasked with new tool

Students at Curtin University are working on a project to give blind people a technological boost.

AgBot brings auto-farming closer

Farmers are often misrepresented as a technologically-backward lot, but now with the help of the internet, satellites, robots and scientists, some Queensland growers are leaping into the future.

Denying malaria its vitamins

Researchers may have developed a technique to stop malaria parasites from using vitamin B1 as a pathway to proliferation.

Eat less - live longer, maybe

A Chinese study has come to a surprising conclusion, finding fasting and calorie-restricted diets may actually increase lifespan

Novel knife can smell cancer

British medical researchers have developed a surgical knife which senses what it is cutting through, and can tell whether tissue is cancerous.

Sweet sweat from novel machine

A new technology has leapt straight from science fiction to reality, allowing human sweat to be turned into clean drinking water.

New tool to spot ADHD

Authorities have given the go-ahead to a remarkable new technology, which uses an advanced scanning technique to identify attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Worksite boned by dino-discovery

Researchers have been called in to the site of some roadworks in Queensland, after workers uncovered fossilised crocodiles, fish, shells and plants dating back about 50 million years.

World Bank to invest in clean energy fix

The World Bank will consult with member countries this week to finalise a proposal to drastically limit its financing of coal-fired power plants, promoting renewable energy and microgrid projects instead.

Community science hits the dusty trail

A New South Wales community group is taking statistics into their own hands, conducting its own monitoring of particle pollution and the dust from coal train carriages.

Robo-engineers taken to task

A prominent American engineer toured Australia recently in the lead up to an international robotics competition in Melbourne.

Test success for 3D-printed rocket nozzle

NASA is employing new age engineering technologies to drastically cut down its development and manufacturing time and costs.

We could be billions better off, energy-wise

Researchers have found Australia's poor investment in energy efficiency is costing tens of billions of dollars in potential economic growth.

State funds for Future Designers

Victorian TAFEs, universities and private training facilities can sign up for a $15,000 federal grant, provided to help companies solve current business challenges using the design-led thinking.

Super crystals key to data future

A new data-storage technique could see thousands of terabytes encoded on crystals which do not degrade.

Tremors triggered by fractured practice

A US study says injecting wastewater from gas drilling operations back into the ground can create geological instability, which can be triggered by tremors in other parts of the planet.