by Matilda Meikle | May 16, 2023 | Environment
Artificial boulders housing rockpools have been dropped into Sydney harbour in an attempt to preserve local marine life. These Living Boulders are the result of a collaboration between marine scientists, Sydney by Kayak and North Sydney Council. Dropped into the...
by Matilda Meikle | May 9, 2023 | Science
Scientists have discovered a new treatment that could solve one of Australia’s biggest health problems. The clinical trial, which was undertaken at Macquarie University, focused on developing a better understanding of the causes of chronic back pain, and the...
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...
