[ad_1] The Department of Health is warning people to avoid contact with a Lyngbya sp. macroalgal bloom that formed in the Scott River Basin east of Molloy Island and upstream from the confluence of the Scott River within Augusta-Margaret River County (see map below). Environmental Health Executive Director Dr. Mike …
Read More »Fundamental study to improve global wheat production
[ad_1] In a landmark study, an international team of scientists, including researchers from the University of Western Australia, sequenced and analyzed the genomes of 15 wheat varieties representing farming programs from around the world. The research provides the most comprehensive atlas of wheat genome sequences reported to date. Wheat, one …
Read More »Team preparing for a billion-dollar telescope selected for the Nobel Prize in supercomputing
[ad_1] An international team led by the University of Western Australia was one of six finalists for the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize for outstanding achievements in high performance computing. The group was shortlisted for the award, commonly referred to as the “Nobel Prize in Supercomputing,” for their work in developing …
Read More »New positioning for one of the largest mass extinction events on Earth
[ad_1] Research from Curtin University has shed new light on when one of the largest mass extinction events on Earth occurred, which gives new meaning to what killed Triassic life and allowed for the ecological expansion of dinosaurs in the Jurassic period. The research, published in the prestigious PNAS journal, …
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