Australasian Science 2016-03_
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MARCH 2016|| 3 CONTENTS 114 20 28 30 FEATURES 14 Sugar Cravings We all differ in our sensitivity to natural and artificial sweet ...
4 | MARCH 2016 CONTENTS 66 11 45 46 NEWS 6 Browse A roundup of science news from our shores. COLUMNS 5 Up Front CSIRO’s climate ...
CSIRO Weathers a New Storm CSIRO’s climate scientists are used to being gagged and bound, but now they have also been thrown ove ...
Eating well during the week only to binge on junk food over the weekend is likely to be just as bad for your gut health as a con ...
Rather than being the treeless, limestone expanse that theNullarbor Plain is today, dating of fossilised pollen has revealed tha ...
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MARCH 2016|| 9 Australian andNew Zealand researchers have discovered that the nine species of moa that roamed New Zealand until ...
10 | MARCH 2016 Very little is known about the burrowing habits of the southern hairy-nosed wombat, but now researchers from the ...
MARCH 2016|| 11 Routine field research has identified a second transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils that is very similar to ...
Male Bees Protect Females from STDs The seminal fluid of male bees kills the sexually transmitted fungus Nosema apis, protecting ...
MARCH 2016||^13 Motorboat Noise Helps Marine Predators An international research team has found that noise from passing motorboa ...
W hile some people love the taste of Tim Tam biscuits, others ind them too sweet. Our research suggests that our genesinluence t ...
drochalcone). The two sugars are sources of sweetness in fruits, vegetables, honey and many other natural products. The two suga ...
likely to ind fructose, aspartame and neohesperidine di hy- drochalcone highly sweet. The results also suggested that there is a ...
T he transfer of a donor’s healthy mitochondria into a woman’s egg or early embryo aims to prevent a child from inheriting mitoc ...
Mitochondrial DNA is also prone to developing new muta- tions. This makes it hard to predict reliably whether and how someone wi ...
Is Mitochondrial Replacement Unnecessary? Some have also argued that we shouldn’t allow mitochondrial replacement because it’s n ...
T he billions of galaxies that make up the known universe come in a dazzling array of masses, shapes and colours. In the past fe ...
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