Australasian Science 11-5

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JUNE 2016|| 3 CONTENTS 115 20 24 28 FEATURES 12 The Dark Web Dilemma The dark web can hide the activities of organised crime and ...

4 | JUNE 2016 CONTENTS 66 10 45 50 NEWS 6 Browse A round­up of science news from our shores. COLUMNS 5 Up Front Early next month ...

Jobs, Growth and... Science Early next month Australians will head to the election polls, and for once scientific issues have bu ...

Children’s languagedevelopment is a learnt skill that is intricately linked to their ability to recognise patterns in their envi ...

World’s Oldest Axe Fragment Found in the Outback  A piece of the world’s oldest axe has been recovered in the remote Kimberley r ...

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JUNE 2016|| 9 Oxygen Surprise in Earth’s Ancient Atmosphere An analysis of fossilised space dust collected form the Pilbara has ...

10 | JUNE 2016 Natural antibodies found in the immune system of Tasmanian devils could be harnessed to stop Devil Facial Tumour ...

MangroveDieback “Unprecedented” Aninternational wetland conference in Darwin has been told that the magnitude of dieback of mang ...

I magine you live in a highly repressive regime that closely watches your every move and restricts what you can say and do onlin ...

anonymous because it becomes extraordinarily diicult to match the initiator of a request with the content that was actu- ally re ...

Many people, when faced with this litany of ill-uses, simply say: “Shut it down!” In fact, a recent public opinion poll released ...

D o you remember Dory, the well-meaning surgeonish with the 1-minute memory in the ilmFinding Nemo? Although the ilm portraits h ...

ability of ish to learn to discriminate objects they see on a regular basis. So how do we test face and object discrimination in ...

to associate a visual stimulus with a food reward. The stimulus would be presented to the ish on a computer screen, or as a lami ...

T he rise of multi-resistant bacteria is one of the greatest risks to human health today. Recently the UK’s Review on Antimicrob ...

No matter how sophisticated implants, catheters, medical devices or tissue engineering constructs are, bioilms are able to form ...

M ost people dream about discovering ancient relics or dinosaurs in their backyard. This became a reality for the Ievers family ...