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Sunday, May 20, 2012
High power-to-weight ratio vehicles not culpable in majority of crashes
A CURTIN-MONASH study has found there is no compelling evidence that restricting power-to-weight ratios on high-performance vehicles for novice drivers will reduce their chance of serious injury crashes.
The striking and rugged Kimberley is Western Australia’s most northern region and covers an area twice the size of Victoria or 424,517 square kilometres.
Its geographical and ecological diversity provides WA with natural resources, unique flora and fauna, terrain and the greatest diversity of rock art in Australia.
As the Kimberley is one of Australia’s last true wildernesses, science and conservation will be critical to understanding how we benefit environmentally, culturally and economically from this unique region.
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Agriculture & Food
Great Southern researchers explore native flora for commercial applicability
A UWA Centre for Excellence in Resource Management (CENRN) researcher in Albany, is working with the community in develo...
Environment & Conservation
Pseudocopulation orchid gets mimicry to the molecular level
RESEARCHERS at UWA have discovered the chemical used by a local orchid to trick male wasps into believing it is a female...
Fisheries & Water
WA students contribute to geosocial ocean app, theBlu
PERTH university students are set to join the world of some of the best animators and developers helping to create a uni...
Health & Medicine
High power-to-weight ratio vehicles not culpable in majority of crashes
A CURTIN-MONASH study has found there is no compelling evidence that restricting power-to-weight ratios on high-performa...
Industry & Resources
Visiting professor weighs in on fracking
DESPITE its polarising title, Dr Derek Elsworth promised ‘Shale Gas and Frac[k]ing: Environmental Saviour or Devil...
Space
Last chance to see transit of Venus in a lifetime
THE coming transit of Venus, where the planet Venus passes between the Sun and the Earth, will almost certainly be the l...
Technology & Innovation
ICT activity in WA going from WApp to OzAPP
A COMPETITION aimed at finding the best new mobile phone app in Australia, has recently been announced by Curtin Univers...
Aboriginal Science & Knowledge
Further hospital admissions result from folly with caustic berries
THE berries of Grevillea pyramidalis ssp. Leucadendron have caused severe skin burns to children in remote Aboriginal co...
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