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The earliest Australians could have avoided the waterways if they didn’t want to encounter this freshwater giant, but there was ...
little creatures like rats and mice, dunnarts and antechinuses, along with the odd possum and bandicoot. What is striking, thoug ...
and giant lizards actually overlapped in time – until now at least. Prior to our new study, the youngest accepted records for li ...
A rriving on the island of Timor more than 40,000 years ago, the irst inhabitants would have been confronted with an astounding ...
tionallysmall mammals like rats can reach gigantic propor- tions. This ecological phenomenon is commonly termed the “island rule ...
The latter had hugeramiications for Timor. The intro- duction of iron allowed more large-scale harvesting of sandle- wood than h ...
E ating is one of the most fundamental experiences we share, but it’s not without risk. Every time we eat we put several foreign ...
may sleep poorly and feel fatigued. Doctors have therefore surmised that the mood problems must be a direct cause of the stomach ...
implicating parasites or other infections as a cause of allergic inlammation of the intestine. Those who develop acute bacterial ...
A n American folktale tells of how theGood Lord createdishandilled the rivers with thesecrea- tures. Theinestand most handsomeis ...
APRIL 2016|| 31 Illustrator: Marsha Wajer ...
Corollaries between ish and human behaviour are easily imagined. Given what we know about the problems of merely observing behav ...
controls most of the basic life-sustaining functions, such as respiration, heart rate and locomotion, as well as sensory relexes ...
T here have long been fears in the community about whether the use of mobile phones could lead to an increase in the frequency o ...
did not want, and which the registry would not have given us anyway, was anything that could identify the individual: their name ...
H earing loss is the most prevalent sensory disability in our society and the second leading cause of disability after depressio ...
outer hair cell-based cochlear ampliier has its volume control at maximum. However, we don’t need our cochlear ampliier to hear ...
functioning P2X 2 receptors experienced a hearing loss of about 18 dB, and this took more than 24 hours to recover. We could mea ...
On 2 April theDefence Trade Controls Act(DTCA) comes into force. This new law controlsresearch into technologies that, in theory ...
40 | APRIL 2016 AUSTRALASIAN SKY Dr Andrew Smith, Sydney Observatory April 2016 ...
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