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Fire discovery sheds new light on ‘hobbit’ demise
The plot thickens in the mystery of the hobbit’s demise, with new evidence narrowing the time gap between modern humans and hobbits at Liang Bua.
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Shining light on a dark matter
UOW physicist offers new clues to solving cosmological mystery.
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Animal attraction: how fish scales and magnetism could help mop up oil spills
Discovering what makes oil bond to some surfaces and not others could be the key to environmental clean ups.
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A 700,000-year-old fossil find shows the Hobbits’ ancestors were even smaller
New evidence shows hobbits were in Indonesia at least 700,000 years ago, writes Dr Gerrit (Gert) van den Bergh.
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Remarkable new finds are clues to ‘hobbit’ ancestry
International team of researchers find 700,000-year-old hobbit remains.
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Health and medical students develop device to rapidly separate cells
An innovation developed by PhD students will help neuroscientists test the effects of drugs.