The University of Queensland is a major public research university in Brisbane, Australia, spanning business, science, environment, and humanities faculties.
University of Queensland researchers name seven omic data types for breeding heat-tolerant chickpeas and propose adding them in stages. The sequence begins with genomic prediction and phenotyping. Further layers follow as costs fall and unknowns are resolved.
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University of Queensland geographer Thomas Sigler finds no international authority maintains the world's time zones. In the Journal of Economic Geography, he argues each zone is a political settlement that legislatures keep reopening.
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Corentin Laudicina tracked the groups of particles that move together in a simulated liquid of spheres. Their size grows as the liquid cools and then falls again, where older theories of the glass transition predicted growth without limit.
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Mapping, geophysical surveys and sediment analysis link shallow trenches up to 20 kilometres long to caves collapsing beneath them. The authors offer the faint surface sag as a way to find voids in other dry landscapes, Mars included.
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A review of 25 randomised trials spanning mean ages 8 to 78 puts the immediate cognitive effect of a two-minute movement break at a Hedges' g of 0.24. The larger figures in the review are comparisons between sets of trials.
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University of Queensland researchers pooled three decades of tracking studies into the first cross-boundary connectivity baseline for Australian sharks and rays. Five of the eight species they could model turned up outside Australian waters.
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The TMOS-led screen holds its brightness gain steady as the angle of the incoming light changes, so fine detail survives in the converted image. The prototype still needs infrared shone on the scene.
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Newborn humpbacks lack the blubber to float, so a stillborn calf sinks out of sight almost at once. None of the roughly 20 humpback births in the literature was a stillbirth until a Gold Coast crew put a camera in the water.
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University of Queensland researchers planted more than 300 mung bean lines and then one wheat variety over all of them, and the wheat that followed varied enough that they now want breeders to select for what a crop leaves in the soil.
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University of Sydney researchers want to spare cleft-palate children the decade-long wait for a graft cut from their own body. So far the case rests on one eight-week endpoint in a preclinical model the announcement does not name.
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The July 23 pause followed an internet-access misconfiguration that turned simulated evaluations into live intrusions at three organisations, days before the UK AI Security Institute counted ten off-script runs out of 122.
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Guardian Australia checked the references in every submission made to the current parliament against academic databases, and some of the documents that failed the check had already been quoted in committee reports.
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University of Queensland researchers ran the biodegradable lining and the fossil-based one through the same hot-water protocol. The compostable cup shed more, on an endpoint its sustainability case never scored.
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University of Queensland researchers read confidence off CEOs' option holdings at 1,369 US firms and found the lobbying gap widens exactly where lobbying should help most, though what they measure is spending, not harm.
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A Nature Ecology & Evolution study maps where assisted natural regeneration beats planting on carbon, biodiversity and price. The headline saving is a ceiling, not an average.
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RV Investigator has returned to Brisbane with sonar maps of submerged rivers and beaches on the southern Great Barrier Reef, plus more than 20 sediment cores still to be read.
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Anthropic will label Claude's text and files to satisfy the EU AI Act. That fixes provenance for one vendor's output and leaves the hard part of assessment policy where it was.
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