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Logging does not cause ‘tipping points’ for Mega Fires
Foreground and mid-ground: young mountain ash regeneration unburnt after 7 February wildfire. Background: burnt 1939 ash regrowth, same wildfire. (Photo: A. Leong, courtesy Victorian Association of Forest Industries)
By Ian Ferguson and Phil Cheney
An alternative view to a report published in Australasian Science last month.
Ian Ferguson is Professor Emeritus of Forest Science at the Dept of Forest and Ecosystem Science, University of Melbourne. Phil Cheney is former Head of the Bushfire Research Unit, CSIRO Forestry and Forest Products.
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Remote Housing Need Not Cost the Earth
Example of a modern rammed earth house in Western Australia. Photo: Stephen Dobson
By Daniela Ciancio
Building and maintaining houses in remote Aboriginal communities is difficult and expensive, but engineering improvements to rammed earth constructions offer a viable alternative.
Daniela Ciancio is Assistant Professor of Structural Engineering at the University of Western Australia.
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Tequila Sunrise
Blue agave at Kalamia Estate, Queensland, in March 2010 during the crop’s first wet season. Photo: Don Chambers
By Daniel Tan
Agave is most popularly known for its use in tequila, but it could also usher in the dawn of a sustainable biofuel industry that does not compete with food crops for arable land.
Daniel Tan is a Senior Lecturer in Agronomy at the University of Sydney and President of the NSW Division of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology.
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The Missing Matter
These frames simulate the evolution of large-scale structures in the universe, including galaxy clusters and cosmic filaments. The frames show the evolution of structures from 140 million light years ago (left) to the present day (right). Simulations performed at the National Center for Supercomputer Applications by Andrey Kravtsov (University of Chicago) and Anatoly Klypin (New Mexico State University). Visualisations by Andrey Kravtsov
By Jasmina Lazendic-Galloway
Cosmic filaments are the largest structures in the universe, and are the most likely places where the universe’s missing matter resides.
Jasmina Lazendic-Galloway is Margaret Clayton Research Fellow at the School of Physics, Monash University.
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A Taste for Fat
There is evidence for a direct role of the taste system in the consumption and preference of high-fat foods. Image: iStockphoto
By Russell Keast
Desensitisation to the taste of fat may be an important factor in the obesity epidemic.
Russell Keast is Associate Professor in the Sensory Science Group at Deakin University.
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The Bionic Eye Is In Sight
The Hatpack simulator. Image: Monash Vision Group
By Namita Bhojani
After conquering the bionic ear more than 30 years ago, Australian scientists have set their sights on the bionic eye.
Namita Bhojani is a freelance science writer, and an Education Officer with the CSIRO and Monash Science Centre.
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How Jumping Genes Drove Primate Evolution
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By Keith Oliver & Wayne Greene
Jumping genes have been important in the evolution of higher primates, leading to faster brain function, improved foetal nourishment, useful red-green colour discrimination and greater resistance to disease-causing microbes – and even the loss of fat storage genes in gibbons.
Keith Oliver is a biologist and philosopher in the School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology and Wayne Greene is Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics in the School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences at Murdoch University.
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