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Study unearths ancient reef structure high and dry on the Nullarbor Plain

Curtin researchers and international collaborators using advanced satellite imagery have discovered an ancient reef-like landform ‘hidden’ in plain view on the Nullarbor Plain.

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Study unearths ancient reef structure high and dry on the Nullarbor Plain
Decades-long study finds endangered whales are having fewer babies

Monday 05 Sep 2022By 286333f

Decades-long study finds endangered whales are having fewer babies

A world-class collaborative research project has found that the Australian population of southern right whales is calving less frequently.

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Curtin researchers make battery-free breakthrough

Wednesday 31 Aug 2022By Lauren Sydoruk

Curtin researchers make battery-free breakthrough

New Curtin University-led research has found a more effective way to improve the output of autonomous power sources, such as triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs).

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Study of 300-million-year-old faeces finds meat on the menu

Wednesday 31 Aug 2022By Lucien Wilkinson

Study of 300-million-year-old faeces finds meat on the menu

Curtin researchers have analysed organic molecules preserved within 306-million-year-old fossilised animal faeces (coprolite) and unlocked a wealth of information.

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Worldwide flower family bloomed 50 million years before the dinosaurs

Wednesday 31 Aug 2022By 286333f

Worldwide flower family bloomed 50 million years before the dinosaurs

New Curtin-led research has discovered that a group of flowering plants with more than one thousand species worldwide is 150 million years older than botanists previously believed.

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Renowned physicist inducted into Western Australian Science Hall of Fame

Monday 29 Aug 2022By Lauren Sydoruk

Renowned physicist inducted into Western Australian Science Hall of Fame

A world-leading expert in the field of atomic collisions and theoretical physics has been inducted into the Western Australian Science Hall of Fame.

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Comet impacts formed continents when Solar System entered galactic arms

Wednesday 24 Aug 2022By Lucien Wilkinson

Comet impacts formed continents when Solar System entered galactic arms

New Curtin research has found evidence that Earth’s early continents resulted from being hit by comets as our Solar System passed into and out of the spiral arms of the Milky Way Galaxy.

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New Curtin Institute to tackle the transition to sustainable energy

Tuesday 23 Aug 2022By Lauren Sydoruk

New Curtin Institute to tackle the transition to sustainable energy

A new institute that aims to train and support the next generation of energy opportunity hunters to enable the transition to clean, sustainable energy has been officially launched at Curtin.

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Curtin University in world’s top one percent of universities

Tuesday 16 Aug 2022By Vanessa Beasley

Curtin University in world’s top one percent of universities

Curtin University is again ranked in the world’s top one percent of universities and ninth in Australia, according to the prestigious Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2022.

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Study finds evidence that giant meteorite impacts created the continents

Thursday 11 Aug 2022By Lucien Wilkinson

Study finds evidence that giant meteorite impacts created the continents

Curtin research has provided the strongest evidence yet that Earth’s continents were formed by giant meteorite impacts that were prevalent during the first billion years or so of the…

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