Posts by Alex Mead

Mite resistance mapping sets up management

groundcover.grdc.com.au, Other, 16/10/2020 The rate of insecticide resistance to several chemicals is rising in redlegged earth mites (RLEM). From 2016 […]

New initiative encourages kids to eat more veggies

Good Vision for Life, Other, 16/10/2020 Did you know that currently only 6 per cent of children aged 2-17 years […]

High fibre Aussie wheat finds favour in Japan

Farming ahead, Other, 16/10/2020 Australian grain growers are producing a new type of bread wheat that delivers up to 10 […]

Removing barriers to batteries: key developments in market regulatory reform

esdnews.com.au, Other, 16/10/2020 The footprint of utility-scale batteries as a force in Australia’s National Electricity Market is relatively small at […]

Trees power this alarm system for remote forest fires

Warta Saya, wartasaya.com, 17/10/2020 Scientists in Michigan have developed a forest fire alarm system. He works at CSIRO, Australia's national […]

During COVID, scientists turn to computers to understand C4 photosynthesis

Science Daily, Other, 17/10/2020 When COVID closed down their lab, a team of researchers turned to computational approaches to understand […]

Now you see it, now you don’t: Hidden colours discovered by coincidence

clarencevalleynews.com.au, Other, 18/10/2020 Scientists in Australia have stumbled across an unusual way to observe colour that had previously gone unnoticed. […]

Why Australia needs to prevent the PhD brain drain – or graduates face being Uber drivers and baristas

Augusta Margaret River Mail, Other, 17/10/2020 As Australia's reputation in the medical research and biotech industry grows, one of the […]

5 female scientists named L’Oréal-UNESCO Fellows 2020: climate change edition

Techregister, www.techregister.co.uk, 13/10/2020, Shari Gallop From last summer’s bushfires to the recent U.S. wildfires, the world’s attention has been irrevocably […]