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Cranberry juice UTI 'myth' upheld by new study that has 'proved mum right'

Cranberry juice's merits for have been much debated, but one new study has found it can reduce the risk of repeat UTIs.

Daily Record · May 10, 2023

Cranberry juice really does relieve cystitis, scientists have found

What is more, it can cut the risk of a repeat infection by 53 per cent for those who are susceptible

Wales Online · May 9, 2023

Scientists say new 3D mapping of West Arnhem flood plain could be a 'game changer'

Scientists say they've discovered huge sandstone escarpments buried under a Northern Territory flood plain, using a technique they say could be a "game changer" for archaeology.

ABC News · May 4, 2023

The importance of sit-down family meals

Gathering the whole brood to eat a meal continues to get more and more challenging. It doesn't have to be so tricky

Salon · Mar 28, 2023

25-million-year-old fossils of a bizarre possum and strange wombat relative reveal Australia's hidden past

Imagine a vast, lush forest dominated by giant flightless birds and crocodiles. This was Australia’s Red Centre 25 million years ago. There lived several species of koala; early kangaroos the size of possums; and the wombat-sized ancestors of the largest-ever marsupial, Diprotodon optatum (around 2.5 tonnes).

The Conversation · Mar 21, 2023

Our mysterious night parrot has terrible vision – but we discovered it might be able to hear like an owl

One bird bucks the stereotype of Australia’s raucous parrots – the mysterious and critically endangered night parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis). Rather than flying around in noisy flocks or eating fruit in trees, the night parrot roosts all day in a clump of sharp spinifex grass. When darkness falls, it scurries about…

The Conversation · Mar 21, 2023

Giant eagle Dynatoaetus gaffae was Australia's biggest raptor, researchers say

Flinders University palaeontologists say the "humungous" raptor had a wingspan of three metres, making it about twice the size of today's wedge-tail eagle.

ABC News · Mar 16, 2023

Australia's extinct giant eagle was big enough to snatch koalas from trees

The year is 1959. Speleologists descend a 17-metre shaft to explore the depths of Mairs Cave in the southern Flinders Ranges. Some 55 metres into the main chamber, they find fossils scattered throughout a boulder pile. Among these fossils are a claw and part of a wing bone that appear…

The Conversation · Mar 16, 2023

Flinders University scientists use biology from insects to build robots with a brain

Scientists at an Adelaide university reverse-engineer the biology of insects to create a robot that can understand vision it is capturing from a camera.

ABC News · Mar 12, 2023

Mysterious creature in ancient Norse manuscript may have been record of strange whale behaviour

What texts described ‘is simply whale behaviour we had not observed but ancient people had’

The Independent UK · Mar 1, 2023