New research shows that a crown fire – the most extreme type of bushfire behaviour, in which tree canopies burn – is more likely in logged native forests.
In a world first, a satellite-based global coral reef bleaching monitoring system will scan the Earth’s oceans for coral-killing bleaching events in real-time.
The public intellectual Sam Harris and world-renowned physicist David Deutsch imagine a future where we are able to download conscious states and live in matrix-like virtual simulations.
Better designed vaccines for insect-spread viruses like dengue and Zika are likely after researchers discovered models of immature flavivirus particles were originally misinterpreted.
"To properly fight this terrible disease, we’ve engineered a vaccine candidate based on a platform technology that uses an Australian insect virus called Binjari virus," ¹ú²ú̽»¨ PhD candidate Jovin Choo said.