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An international study has found a drought alarm system that first appeared in freshwater algae may have enabled plants to move from water to land more than 450 million years ago – a big evolutionary step that led to the emergence of land animals, including humans.
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Researchers from the Australian National University (ANU) have discovered several new species of butterflies and moths in Northern Australia, identifying a conservation stronghold of national and international significance.
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Human error, not human biology, largely accounts for the apparent decline of mortality among the very old, according to a new report by Saul Newman of the Research School of Biology, ANU. The result casts doubt on the hypothesis that human longevity can be greatly extended beyond current limits.
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A scientific breakthrough intended to help boost the yields of food crops has solved a long-standing question of how cyanobacteria, known as blue-green algae, builds the carbon-capturing engines called carboxysomes in a protein liquid droplet formation.
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Alexandra Catling indulges in her passion for scientific research on a trip to south east Asian forests. And discovers leeches.
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Fairy wrens can learn to recognise the alarm calls of other species.
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Seaweed plays an important role in coral reef biodiversity, with an important role in the lifecycle of several fishes.
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Fred Chow has dedicated his working life to the study of photosynthesis.
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Aude Fahrer's work aims to activate the immune cells responsible for attacking cancer, in a simple, low cost way.
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Susanne von Caemmerer is recognised as a worldwide expert for using mathematics to represent the process by which plants convert sunlight, gases and water into sugars and oxygen – photosynthesis.
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Sam Periyannan was born and brought up on a small sugar cane farm in Southern India. He never dreamed he would become a crop researcher, rather than a cane farmer.