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Is human activity creating a breeding ground for pandemics?
Research led by The University of Western Australia has revealed that climate change, environmental degradation of land and human activity are creating a breeding ground for viruses such as COVID-19 and there may be an even deadlier pandemic on the horizon.
While previous studies have pointed to these risks, scientists say COVID-19 has made it imperative to understand how critical it is to reduce human impacts on the environment – such as the consumption of products associated with increased deforestation and unsustainable agricultural practices – to prevent the occurrence of pandemics,.
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Scientists discover oldest starfish-like fossil
Scientists from The University of Western Australia have uncovered the oldest starfish-like fossil, Cantabrigiaster Fezouataensis, which is the first ancestor of all starfish in the world.
The fossil was uncovered in Morocco and the discovery provides an insight into the evolution of starfish and other echinoderms such as sea lilies. The research has been published in the Royal Society.
Starfish and brittle stars, collectively known as Asterozoans, are a diverse and ecologically successful group of spiny-skinned echinoderms that first appeared in fossil records around 480 million years ago in the Ordovician period.
However, the evolution and origin of starfish and brittle stars and their relationship to the oldest echinoderms (from the Cambrian period) still remains somewhat of a mystery.
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6K, leading developer of microwave plasma technology for the production of advanced materials, today announced that Dr. Joe Felter, a former senior Department of Defense official under then Secretary of Defense James Mattis, has joined 6K’s advisory board. Dr. Felter will guide 6K’s strategy in working with the US Department of Defense and other Federal agencies for the innovation and deployment of advanced materials products to support the national interest of the US. He joins other industry luminaries including Magnus Rene, prior CEO ARCAM, and Robert Galyen, prior CTO CATL.
“We are honored to have Dr. Felter join the 6K team as part of our advisory board. 6K has a unique technology that not only addresses scarcity of strategic materials and reduces our dependence on foreign imports, but for the first time enables domestic production of advanced materials typically produced overseas due to our dramatic reduction in production costs and ability to produce in an env
New global partnership to secure future of renewable energy
19 Jan 2021 | 3 mins
Developing new methods to accurately locate high quality deposits of copper and reduce the environmental impact of mining is the focus of a new partnership between The University of Western Australia, BHP and the University of Bristol.
Professor Steffen Hagemann, Professor Marco Fiorentini and Professor Tony Kemp from UWA’s Centre for Exploration Targeting will lead a team of researchers who will analyse key processes responsible for the grouping of elusive metals in the Earth’s crust.
Professor Steffen Hagemann, Professor Tony Kemp and Professor Marco Fiorentini inspecting a copper-rich ore sample at UWA s Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) facility.
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NORTH ANDOVER, Mass., Jan. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ 6K, the world s leading developer of microwave plasma technology for the production of advanced materials, today announced that Dr. Joe Felter, a former senior Department of Defense official under then Secretary of Defense James Mattis, has joined 6K s advisory board. Dr. Felter will guide 6K s strategy in working with the US Department of Defense and other Federal agencies for the innovation and deployment of advanced materials products to support the national interest of the US. He joins other industry luminaries including Magnus Rene, prior CEO ARCAM, and Robert Galyen, prior CTO CATL. We are honored to have Dr. Felter join the 6K team as part of our advisory board. 6K has a unique technology that not only addresses scarcity of strategic materials and reduces our dependence on foreign imports, but for the first time enables domestic production of advanced materials typically produced overseas due to our dramatic reductio