Solving crime using the bleeding obvious
Forensic experts are helping to solve crime with equipment that they always carry with them and that doesn’t rely on expensive gadgetry – their eyes.
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Frogs have tantrums to protect patch
The red-eyed tree frog’s secret is out: rather than croaking an attractive tune, it uses vibrations to improve its chances of finding a mate.
Nanotechnology lowers desalination costs
Flinders University research that could dramatically slash the energy and maintenance needs of desalination plants has just been given a major boost.
$1.3 million for Flinders research
Flinders University projects have received more than $1.3 million in Australian Research Council Linkage funding announced today by the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator Kim Carr.
Whale poo curbs carbon emissions
The need to stop whaling has been given greater urgency by new research that shows Southern Ocean sperm whales play an important role in removing carbon from the atmosphere.
Explosives point to terrorists
New techniques for tracking bomb-making materials, and possibly pointing the way towards the terrorists themselves, are being researched at Flinders University.
Putting surfaces under scrutiny
From soap bubbles to catalytic converters, the nature of interactions on a surface are vital in huge range of structures and processes.
Naval architecture course boon for SA
Flinders University is set to make a major contribution to the skills required by South Australia’s burgeoning defence and shipbuilding with the introduction of the State’s first undergraduate naval architecture degree.
Gold puts heat on leukaemia
Leukaemia cells have a golden assassin on their trail. Researchers at Flinders University are working on the development of a treatment for leukaemia that will use the light absorbing properties of gold to attack the cells of the blood-borne cancer.