Trailblazing women honoured as Cross River Rail goes underground
Trailblazing women honoured as Cross River Rail goes underground
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Two groundbreaking Queensland women have been recognised as part of Brisbane s $5.6 billion Cross River Rail project as it moves into the construction phase.
Else Shepherd AM was Queensland s first female engineering graduate, going on to become the chair of Powerlink, while feminist Merle Thornton AM, who introduced women s studies at the University of Queensland in 1973, is best known for a protest at the Regatta Hotel.
Transport Minister Mark Bailey with Queensland s first female electrical engineering graduate, Professor Else Shepherd AM.
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Coronavirus, conspiracies and cries of election fraud marked 2020 as the year of the infodemic. But the worst may be yet to come
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Misinformation has spread like wildfire in 2020.
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Bill Gates became a supervillain, arson was blamed for catastrophic bushfires and dead people were said to have cast votes in the US presidential election: never before has there been a year so polluted by misinformation as has 2020.
When the director-general of the World Health Organisation declared in February that the world was fighting not just a pandemic but also an infodemic , it was not immediately clear just how prophetic that statement would prove to be.
CRISPR/Cas9 System Could Support Efforts to Conserve Fragile Reef Ecosystems
Written by AZoCleantechDec 22 2020
Researchers can now use the CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing system to gain insights into, and perhaps enhance, the response of corals to the environmental stresses caused by climate change.
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Led by Phillip Cleves who joined Carnegie’s Department of Embryology this fall the study describes how the groundbreaking, Nobel Prize-winning technology can be used to steer conservation efforts aimed at vulnerable reef ecosystems.
The findings of the research team headed by Cleves were published recently in two papers in the
Police are gearing up for a massive bikie gathering in Western Australia with hundreds of outlaw gang members set to ride into town for the funeral of a former Rebels boss.
Nick Martin was shot in the back while attending the Outlaw Nitro Challenge drag racing event at the Perth Motorplex, Kwinana Beach, on December 12.
The underworld figure is believed to have been killed by a sniper in a highly-orchestrated assassination carried out in front of horrified families and children, including his own wife and step-daughter.
Now hundreds of patched members from various bikie gangs are expected to converge for his funeral on Wednesday.