Australasian Science — May-June 2017

Why Do Whale Sharks Get So Big? • Why Data Breaches Are a Growing Problem The Future of Frogs in the Face of Fire • Moral Enhanc ...

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MAY/JUNE 2017 | | 3 CONTENTS 17 22 25 34 FEATURES 14 Will Enhanced Soldiers Fight a Just War? Technologies may be able to enhanc ...

4 ||MAY/JUNE 2017 CONTENTS 11 43 47 48 NEWS & COLUMNS 5 Up Front Gender bias in science is found not only in pay and seniori ...

MAY/JUNE 2017 | | 5 http://www.austscience.com EDITOR/PUBLISHER:Guy Nolch COLUMNISTS:David Reneke, Ian Lowe, Peter Bowditch, Mic ...

Fern’s Fractals Energise Self-Powering Devices Inspired by an American fern, RMIT University researchers have developed a protot ...

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Astronomers Probe Halo of Starburst Galaxy Astronomers have used a radio telescope in outback Western Australia to see the halo ...

10 ||MAY/JUNE 2017 New Painkiller from Fanged Fish’s Heroin-Like Venom A fearless fanged coral reef fish that disables its oppon ...

MAY/JUNE 2017 | | 11 An international research team has proposed a “carbon law” based on Moore’s Law as a pathway to meeting the ...

Humans Affected by Shifting Species A study published in Sciencehas reported that communities and economies from the tropics to ...

Joeys Neglected When Mums Mingle Having a social life comes at a cost for grey kangaroos, with research published in Behavioral ...

A s combinations of nano-, bio-, info- and cogni- tive technologies converge and combine, humanity is increasing its capacity to ...

cognitive enhancements could be used to increase the soldier’s good conduct in war. On a different line of reasoning, research i ...

of cases in one study). Nevertheless, the impacts of increased aggression and depression in warfare give us reason to be very ca ...

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T he human brain communicates with every part of the body by sending neural impulses through the central nervous system. Neural ...

Some of the Challenges Neuroscientists are aware that there will be a demand for neural interface devices not only for medical p ...

Isaac Asimov, provide security and safety for the human race? Will robots, through the use of cognitive computing, find a way ar ...