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Contact the Macquarie University Communications Team
Phone: +61 2 9850 6766
Email: communications@mq.edu.au
NEID Exoplanet Instrument sees first light
Its name means ‘to see’, and it has just taken its first observations.
Stopping poaching by the numbers
Mathematics can help reduce poaching and illegal logging in national parks, researchers have found.
Lonesome no more: white sharks hang with buddies
White sharks form communities, researchers have revealed.
Researchers united on international road map to insect recovery
Insects aren’t just small things that eat our plants and annoy us at picnics – they’re an absolutely vital part of our ecosystem.
It’s complicated: coral bleaching is caused by more than just heat
Scientists in the Indian and Pacific Oceans used the El Nino of 2016 – the warmest year on record – to evaluate the role of excess heat as the leading driver of coral bleaching and discovered the picture was more nuanced than existing models showed.
Ground-breaking new study finally establishes the timing of Homo erectus’s last stand in Indonesia
An international team of researchers led by Institute of Technology, Indonesia, Macquarie University, Australia and University of Iowa, USA, used modern archaeological science techniques to identify when our ancestors went extinct.
Hunting molecules that signal pain
A new microscope-based method for detecting a particular molecule in the spinal cord could help lead to an accurate and independent universal pain scale, research from Australia’s Macquarie University suggests.
Device makes electric vehicle charging a two-way street
A new device turns electric vehicles into chargers for houses and stranded cars.
Macquarie University’s Darug-Led ‘Yanama Budyari Gumada’ Project wins a Green Gown Award
Macquarie University have won the Benefitting Society award at the 2019 annual Green Gown Awards Australasia, recognising the work of the ‘Yanama budyari gumada’ research collective, based on Darug Country – Darug Ngurra – in Western Sydney.
Macquarie University secures Ideas Grants for innovative cross-faculty health and medicine research
In a highly competitive first round, Macquarie University researchers from across medicine, science and engineering and business have been awarded key NHMRC funding to support innovative research for improved treatment of chronic ill health and vision impairment.
Hearing Australia and Macquarie University collaborate to transform hearing health
Hearing Australia and Macquarie University today announced an expansion of their Collaborative Agreement to advance hearing health.
Macquarie University named best university workplace for new dads
Macquarie University has been named Australia’s best university workplace for new dads in the second annual Top 20 Workplaces for Dads study.