Monash University is a major Australian research university in Melbourne, with programs spanning physics, astronomy, archaeology, and Indigenous studies.
Monash University chemists built a gallium cathode that alloys with lithium and sent 96% of its current into ammonia in lab tests. Whether that helps small renewable-powered ammonia plants depends on electrolyzer prototypes the team has yet to build.
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Monash University's Susan Davis found menopause was not linked to absence or lost productivity in a study of more than 8,000 midlife women. The result undercuts the work case for the menopause plans large UK employers must publish from April 2027.
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Monash University and partner researchers linked hotter weather to faster telomere loss in wild fairy-wrens that often face heat above 40C. The evidence is observational, but it gives conservation planners a measurable sign of heat stress in birds that live through hot spells.
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Monash University researchers found 39 large ASX financial and materials firms addressed about 36% of 40 questions on modern slavery grievances and remedies. The thinnest answers cover remedies, the record a firm may need if a proposed criminal offence makes reasonable steps its defence.
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Monash researchers found that LGBTQ+ Australians in national survey data carry up to 3.5 times the risk of high psychological distress. The authors attribute the gap to stigma and barriers to care, an explanation the reported figures fit but were not built to test.
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Australia's climate simulator now offers one shared ISSM build, a Python interface and a community data pool to its ice-sheet researchers. Coupling that ice to the ocean and atmosphere inside ACCESS comes later.
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Nothing grows in the dark at Cloggs Cave, so the half-burnt silica plant microfossils in its ash layers came in with people. The dated layers show the same act being repeated for at least 2,800 years.
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Researchers writing in Nature Human Behaviour estimate a median pre-colonial Indigenous population of 2.22 million and 2.06 million excess deaths by 1861, built from genetics and environmental modelling instead of colonial head counts.
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An Adelaide-led team reports that magma feeding volcanoes in Western Australia's Pilbara Craton drew on a source that already held water, and proposes a pre-plate-tectonic process called dripduction to explain how it got down there.
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Two Physical Review Letters studies read published LIGO data with different methods and both picked out binaries whose larger member spins fast and sits tilted. One of the estimates puts that group near 14 percent of pairs.
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Australia's draft Digital Duty of Care Bill threatens fines up to A$109 million if platforms fail to offer the choice, and it defines the alternative as friends and follows, so whether the opt-out holds depends on how good that feed turns out to be.
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An NBER working paper asked 916 doctoral students and postdocs how they felt now and how they felt half a year earlier. The gap is large, and it measures stated intent, which is not the same as measuring departures.
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Resolving a YouTube handle by regexing the first channelId out of the page HTML returned the wrong channel 15 times in a 16-channel sample, because the string it finds first belongs to whatever the page features.
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A Physical Review Letters paper says bosons and fermions can bind into a self-holding droplet, and that today's ultracold-atom rigs are enough to check it.
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A Monash researcher argues Australopithecus and Paranthropus belong inside Homo because the traits that once separated them no longer hold. The fossils do not change; every label on them would.
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Monash and Warwick researchers report a bacterial antibiotic starves the invasive hyphal form of glucose, pointing antifungal discovery at virulence rather than viability.
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A Nature study of 62 psychedelic-naive adults reports that the feeling of dissolved self-world boundaries tracks integration between self-referential and sensory networks.
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The technology trial used to justify Australia's under-16 social media ban carries citations critics call AI-fabricated. Its authors conceded ChatGPT use only after being shown link metadata.
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