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Friday 4 July 2025
Oldest wooden artefacts ever found in East Asia reveal plant-based diet of ancient humans
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A new ‘prac payment’ has just kicked in. But it ignores many uni students
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Unlocking Australia's deep-sea potential
UOW hosts international workshop on biodiscovery in the deep-sea.
The lessons to be learned now the ABC’s pulled its ‘inaccurate’ Wi-Fried program
The ABC breached its impartiality standards in a Catalyst program on the safety of wireless devices such as mobile phones, writes UOW's Professor Rodney Croft.
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.
Shining light on a dark matter
UOW physicist offers new clues to solving cosmological mystery.
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.
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.