The University of Sydney is Australia's oldest university, a major research institution with programs spanning sciences, humanities, engineering, and medicine.
University of Sydney PhD student Daniel Irving classified almost 800 million Martian locations into 2,000 soil classes, called areths. The scheme is labelled provisional, and its plant-growth ranking still awaits tests on Earth and checks by rover.
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Drone LiDAR surveys in the Blue Mountains led field teams to three Aboriginal rock shelters absent from the heritage register. The University of Sydney and Australian Museum study also improved coordinates for six registered shelters, Discover Magazine reported.
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University of Sydney researchers estimate that Oahu shark-tour participants were 40% more likely to act for sharks two years later than without the tour. With a Waikiki Beach comparison group, the result is firmer on a lasting difference than on what the tour caused.
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University of Sydney researchers found three shared conditions across more than 70 studies of conservation success. Every study in the sample describes a success, so for new programmes the pattern is a hypothesis to test.
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MeerKAT and JWST traced fast radio burst FRB 20240304B to a galaxy seen 3 billion years after the Big Bang, more than doubling the distance record. The small, star-forming host is one data point for young magnetars as the source of at least some of these flashes.
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Bath's Fei Qin and co-authors tie leaders' international experience to higher growth, profit and stock performance in a Journal of Management review. The links are associations, and Qin says the payoff depends on the kind of experience and how a leadership team shares it.
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Sydney and Melbourne researchers price a one-point gain in eudaimonic well-being, a measure of purpose and connection, at about A$273 in 2008 dollars. Counting it in appraisals of bike paths and parks first needs evidence on how far a project moves those scores.
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University of Sydney researchers report that the cancer drug zavondemstat works mainly by blocking the enzyme DHODH, not the KDM4 proteins it was built to hit. The experiments were done in glioblastoma cells, and the drug is already in human trials.
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Monash University researchers found 39 large ASX financial and materials firms addressed about 36% of 40 questions on modern slavery grievances and remedies. The thinnest answers cover remedies, the record a firm may need if a proposed criminal offence makes reasonable steps its defence.
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University of Sydney researchers used more than 14,000 human embryo cells to benchmark four leading blastoid methods and found large differences in fidelity. None fully captures early human development, but labs now have a shared molecular reference to test protocols against.
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Mathew Domeier's University of Oslo team finds four fast bursts of true polar wander recorded in ancient sea levels over the past 190 million years. During those bursts, he says, the poles moved faster than most tectonic plates do, fast enough to possibly affect climate.
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University of Sydney researchers scored four human blastoid methods against RNA from 14,000-plus embryo cells, and none fully matched a real blastocyst. Because the gaps differ by protocol, labs need to know which model produced a result before reading it as human biology.
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University of Sydney researchers have split Australia's Anchiale stick insects from two species into five, one laying eggs with a lidlike structure new to the group. The insects already had more than 1000 citizen-science records, and telling them apart took DNA analysis checked against museum specimens.
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Australian officials blame US feeds for anger at datacentres, but the backlash has already produced three inquiries and planned federal power rules. Builders of gigawatt sites face a planned gas ban and a rule to add as much new renewable supply as they consume.
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Mark Zuckerberg met a year of harassment reports at Connect 2026 by restating the glasses' recording light, while Meta took 94% of first-half shipments. The resistance is coming from bystanders and the places they gather, in Australian council bans and London venues weighing their own.
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A University of Sydney survey of coral feeding scars on the Great Barrier Reef found crown-of-thorns starfish moving on before a colony died, with regrowth concentrated in the slow-growing corals Montipora and Porites.
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Researchers led from Sydney and Imperial simulated pastoral households across seven southern African countries and report that better seasonal information helped the poorest herders only when something also paid for the response.
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LONG's own figures put more than $425 million of stock-paired volume against almost $12 million of locked liquidity. Angelo Aspris blames thin reserves for a tokenized HIMS price that came apart from the real one.
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A University of Sydney group sampled living hearts during bypass operations and found human heart muscle cells dividing after a heart attack, the response mice were known to mount and no one had shown in people.
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Australia's draft Digital Duty of Care Bill threatens fines up to A$109 million if platforms fail to offer the choice, and it defines the alternative as friends and follows, so whether the opt-out holds depends on how good that feed turns out to be.
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