Protecting your blood vessels from a damaging high salt meal could be as easy as eating just a cup of mashed avocado or ¾ cup of dried apricots as a side with a large Big Mac meal or a bacon breakfast, according to Dr Natalie Lister of the University of Sydney. Research performed by Natalie,…
Pet abuse and domestic violence are closely linked. Animals can’t talk but University of Sydney vet Dr Lydia Tong has shown vets how to tell the difference between bone fractures caused by accidents and those caused by abuse. Her fracture identification methods are giving vets the added confidence to identify cases of violence against pets…
Wednesday 9 July 2014 Dr James Makinson evicts bees from their homes for a good reason—to figure out how they collectively decide on the next place to live. His research on bee communication and consensus-building has been published in this month’s issue of Animal Behaviour. James and his colleagues at the University of Sydney in partnership…
A new class of super-accurate atomic clocks may detect miniscule changes in the laws of physics and shed light on how and why life exists in the universe, Sydney physicists have found. Andrew Ong and his collaborators at the University of New South Wales discovered that the clocks could detect potential changes in a fundamental…
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Fresh Science is a national competition and training program helping early-career researchers find and share their stories of discovery.
We take young researchers with no media experience and help them become media spokespeople for their science, and reach stakeholders in government and industry.
Fresh Science gives finalists a taste of life in the limelight, with a day of media training, a day of training in stakeholder engagement, and a public event in their home state.
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