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Public Australian university based in Adelaide, South Australia, with research programs spanning health, archaeology, and marine science.
Flinders University researchers resampled replanted sites over six years and found different parts of the soil fungal community recover at different rates. Vegetation, the usual yardstick of replanting, does not automatically show soil recovery, the Flinders researchers warn.
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Oslo University Hospital researchers took 391 air, dust and surface samples from simulated 15-minute burglaries in 22 homes in Oslo and Australia. Success varied with temperature, humidity, dust and the household's own DNA.
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Flinders University researchers surveyed 578 Australian men and found sexual minority men who used one type of dating app reported more anxiety. A survey of this kind can show an association but not that adding a second app lowers anxiety.
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Researchers with an Australian Research Council centre put Australia's Indigenous population before 1788 at a median 2.22 million. They also estimate 2.06 million excess deaths by 1861, a 93% fall that depends on a modeled baseline.
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Archaeologists and Murujuga rangers have documented two seabed sites off Western Australia that were drowned by rising seas at least 9,000 years ago. More than 20 stone artefacts were recovered, and the study says they could be considerably older.
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Flinders University researchers say vanillin has antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties that could suit chronic-wound treatments. The team also points to its low cost and to its potential for delivering drugs that dissolve poorly in water.
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Flinders University psychologists found mock suspects, autistic or not, drew harsher ratings when their interview behaviour broke observers' expectations. The authors say police and courts must guard against inferring guilt from a suspect's communication style.
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Flinders researchers argue vanillin's antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and antibacterial activity makes it a candidate for chronic-wound formulations. Most of their case rests on cheap supply and a long record in food, and the published account does not say how much vanillin speeds healing.
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Flinders researchers interviewed 12 people aged 65 or older with dementia or mild cognitive impairment about how clinicians handled giving up driving. The four-phase plan built from their accounts sets out what patients want, though without a comparison group it cannot show which approach eases adjustment.
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Flinders University researchers pooled 22 air-sampling studies of toilet flushing and found aerosol concentration tracked flush volume and the load in the bowl, while the data on closing the lid stayed too thin to settle the question.
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Researchers writing in Nature Human Behaviour estimate a median pre-colonial Indigenous population of 2.22 million and 2.06 million excess deaths by 1861, built from genetics and environmental modelling instead of colonial head counts.
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Flinders University researchers loaded 3D models of placoderm jaw plates from a Western Australian reef and found the smallest and the largest species both had the strongest jaws for hard food, built on opposite designs.
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A Flinders University study in Marine Ecology used neutron activation analysis to track how acidified seawater changes what two diatom species take up, and the authors still want the carbon-pump consequence tested.
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Flinders University followed nearly 10,000 women over 65 for a decade and found tea drinkers with slightly denser hips, while coffee tracked with thinner bone only past five cups a day. That is a statement about dose, pinned to intake above five cups a day.
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Amy Hardwick, Sam Elliott and colleagues argue the unit of reform is the club culture rather than the individual parent. That is a fair read of what they saw at two English clubs. So far, though, it is a prescription nobody has tested.
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Flinders University researchers report older adults stiffen the ankle by co-contracting opposing muscles, gaining stability and losing push-off. The mechanism is specific; the training advice is not yet tested.
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