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Macquarie PhD candidate awarded a Fulbright Scholarship
A Macquarie University PhD candidate has been announced as the recipient of a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship.
Macquarie University launches fast access bushfire respiratory clinic amid patient spike
Dangerous air quality levels from bushfires has prompted a team of respiratory specialists at Macquarie University’s MQ Health to launch a dedicated clinic to treat the high numbers of patients who are presenting with acute exacerbation of lung illnesses.
Macquarie University to lead three new Linkage Projects
Macquarie University researchers have been awarded three grants under the Australian Research Council Linkage Project scheme.
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.