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Thu, 13 Feb 2025

Environmentally hazardous cigarette butts may ironically hold the answer to cleansing Australia’s waterways of major metal contaminants, according to a new James Cook University-led study.

Wed, 12 Feb 2025
A new study shows that fully protecting the world’s most popular scuba diving sites could not only help marine life bounce back, but also generate an extra US ...

Tue, 11 Feb 2025
JCU researchers are looking into measures of past temperature variation to better predict the risk of bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef.

Fri, 7 Feb 2025
A four year-long research study has found that particles secreted by an intestinal worm may assist in treating inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), an ailment suffered ...

Thu, 6 Feb 2025
A new study has found that nearly half the coral trout caught on the Great Barrier Reef come from marine reserves – where protected fish grow larger and produc...

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Teaching robots empathy to enhance human interaction
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23 Jan 2025

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