by The Lighthouse | Feb 22, 2023 | Science
A coalition of researchers, including social scientists from Macquarie University, is calling for urgent government action to tackle the growing number of Australians skipping meals or eating low quality food. A combination of floods, rising living costs and the...
by The Lighthouse | Jan 11, 2023 | Science
A new gene therapy treatment that has been shown to reduce uncontrolled seizures in mice will be ready to begin clinical trials within two years. A study published this month in Science Advances by a team of researchers at Macquarie University’s Dementia Research...
by Lauren Lefever | Dec 21, 2022 | Environment, Science
In western Queensland, near the remote town of McKinlay, a group of amateur female palaeontologists (known as the “Rock Chicks”) unearthed a rare 100 million-year-old fossil of an ancient dinosaur. The plesiosaur fossil, known as an elasmosaur, was complete with the...
by Ian Neubauer | Jul 7, 2022 | Environment, Science
In the not-to-distant future, green hydrogen promises to replace diesel fuel and nitrogen-based fertilisers – and it’s completely emission-free. But what exactly is green hydrogen? And when will we be able to buy it at the corner store? More than 200 years have...
by Ian Neubauer | Apr 22, 2022 | Agriculture, Technology
Individual farmers could increase their returns by a massive 250 per cent by using innovations that help close the gap between problems, solutions and commercialisation on the land. This is farming the future. That’s the gospel according to Christine...