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NEWS BRIEFING: The last five years of assisted reproduction in Australia
EMBARGO LIFTED 01:01 AEST Friday Sep 11 The Assisted Reproductive Technology in Australia and New Zealand 2013 report, by UNSW’s National Perinatal Epidemiology and Statistics Unit (NPESU), is due out...
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NEWS BRIEFING: Latest Kirby Institute stats – STIs still rising, but there’s...
EMBARGO LIFTED 01.00 AEST MON SEP 14 The latest stats from the UNSW Kirby Institute’s annual surveillance report once again paint a mixed picture of Australians’ sexual health. The report, which is one...
View ArticleNEWS BRIEFING: Australian wins Ig Nobel Prize for the ‘unboil an egg machine’
Professor Colin Raston from Flinders University has won the Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his invention of a machine, the Vortex Fluidic Device, that can at least partially ‘unboil’ an egg. The...
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BACKGROUND BRIEFING: Chronic pain – the hidden health crisis
Low back pain is now the leading cause of disability in Australia. It is the second biggest cause of total disease burden, outstripping asthma, stroke and even lung cancer. And if you live in rural and...
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NEWS BRIEFING: The highs and lows of Aussie drug use: ice splits drug-taking...
EMBARGO LIFTED 00.01 AEDT Wed Oct 14 2015 NEWS BRIEFING – Tue Oct 13 at 10:30 AEDT Online UNSW’s National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) is releasing two annual reports on drug use among...
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NEWS BRIEFING: Industrial waste and orange peel can safely scrub the oceans...
NEWS BRIEFING – Monday 19 October at 11:00 AEDT Online Mercury contamination plagues many areas of the world, affecting both food and water supplies, and now researchers at Flinders University have...
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BACKGROUND BRIEFING: I, Drive – On the road to driverless cars
BACKGROUND BRIEFING – Monday 2 November 2015 at 11:00 AEDT Autonomous vehicles are starting to gain traction around the world as advances in data technology and computing allow the vehicles to keep...
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BRIEFING: COP out or global triumph – can the climate talks in Paris succeed?
BRIEFING – 19 November at 11:30 AEDT ONLINE The UN Framework on Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP21) meeting in Paris, which begins on 30 November, has been hailed as the most likely...
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NEWS BRIEFING and EXPERT REACTION: WMO release global temperature data – how...
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) will release a provisional statement on the Status of Global Climate with early results suggesting 2015 is likely to be the hottest year on record. The...
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BRIEFING: Power battle – Comparing electricity costs into 2030 Launch of the...
EMBARGO LIFTED 12.00noon AEDT Thu 26 November 2015 NEWS BRIEFING – Thu 26 Nov at 11:00 AEDT ONLINE Will our power generation landscape look drastically different in 15 years’ time or will coal still be...
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