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		<title>[06 Aug 10] Harnessing telecoms cables to monitor global warming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Telecommunications companies and oceanographers should work together to use old and new submarine cables to advance research projects, according to an opinion piece by Dr John You from the Institute of Marine Science at the University of Sydney. The article is published in the August 2010 edition of Nature. Dr You said a global network [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[12 Aug - 3 Dec 10] Library exhibition &#8211; Some Like it Hot: Celebrating 20 years of Simpson Desert research</title>
		<description><![CDATA[12 August 2010 to 3 December 2010 Let ecologists take you on a trip into the heart of Australia&#8217;s red desert with an exhibition that celebrates 20 years of continual ecological study in the Simpson Desert. Images and journals from the volunteers who have worked on the study will be displayed alongside real specimens of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[30 Jul 10] Biomedicine at the Expo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[// Dr Hala Zreiqat Organs wear out. Disease and trauma cause bone and tissue loss. Creating replacement human tissue is the &#8220;challenge of the century&#8221; for medical research, says Hala Zreiqat, one of the speakers at the next University of Sydney symposium at the Shanghai Expo. As the average human life span increases &#8211; to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[30 Jul 10] Rescuing climate change science from politics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Professor Rosemary Lyster. First published in the Canberra Times.
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Prime Minister Julia Gillard will re-prosecute the case for a carbon price following the elections. But first, she intends to build a community consensus for action. How hard is this likely to be? Earlier in the year, following "climategate" and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's unsubstantiated finding that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035, many claimed the case for a carbon price had evaporated.]]></description>
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		<title>[30 Jul 10] Great Barrier Reef corals unveil sea level and climate changes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A team of international scientists, including Dr Jody Webster from the University of Sydney, have taken part in a groundbreaking voyage to the Great Barrier Reef between February to April this year to acquire fossil coral reef cores from the edge of the continental shelf. Researchers examining the fossil coral reef cores have found climate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vale Professor Alan Gilbert</title>
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		<title>[29 Jul 10] Australian Seafood Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) Postgraduate Scholarship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Fishing-to-market: product-quality-based harvest strategies to increase profitability for greenlip abalone&#8221; In collaboration with Flinders University, SARDI Aquatic Sciences and the University of South Australia, the Australian Seafood CRC invite applications for a PhD top-up scholarship to complete research on product-quality-based harvest strategies designed to increase the profitability of greenlip abalone. This scholarship will provide an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sciencehub.com.au/29-jul-10-australian-seafood-cooperative-research-centre-crc-postgraduate-scholarship/</link>
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		<title>[29 Jul 10] CSIRO develops new oil detection technique</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CSIRO scientists have developed a revolutionary technique for the rapid on-site detection and quantification of petroleum hydrocarbons (commonly derived from crude oil) in soil, silt, sediment, or rock. Developed in collaboration with waste technology specialist, Ziltek Pty Ltd, the technique means that the presence of petroleum hydrocarbons can now be quantified simply by using a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sciencehub.com.au/29-jul-10-csiro-develops-new-oil-detection-technique/</link>
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		<title>[29 Jul 10] Quantum optics breakthrough with UQ participation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A significant breakthrough spearheaded by UQ, Canadian and Austrian researchers is featured in the latest issue of the journal Nature. The breakthrough was made by Thomas Jennewein, Hannes Hübel, Deny Hamel and Kevin Resch of the University of Waterloo, Canada, along with Alessandro Fedrizzi of the University of Queensland, Australia and Sven Ramelow of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[29 Jul 10] Band-Aid for broken mental health system</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Associate Professor John Mendoza. First published in The Age. The PM&#8217;s policy is the same tired old approach that&#8217;s failed for decades. On taking office, Julia Gillard was quick to announce the government had &#8220;lost its way&#8221; on several issues. We in the mental health community were excited about the prospect of her leadership [...]]]></description>
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