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Children’s ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ expands to Mount Gambier

Principal of Yahl Primary School Chris Morrison and year 3 student Albie

Young learners in the State’s southeast are receiving extra support for future pathways as Children’s ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ Australasia and Africa (CUAA) expands to Mount Gambier.

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Impact of housing on children’s wellbeing

Impact of housing on children’s wellbeing

ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide researchers have secured funding from the  to develop a data framework for understanding children’s housing circumstances in ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ and their impacts.

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Participants needed for world-first pancreatic cancer study

A group of four people stand in white coats in a medical laboratory.

South ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n and Victorian patients with pancreatic cancer will be able to participate in a world-first human comparative clinical trial that aims to improve symptoms and survival outcomes using faecal transplant in combination with chemotherapy compared to placebo.

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A career dedicated to unearthing the secrets of matter

Derek Leinweber

The ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide’s distinguished theoretical physicist, eminent, Professor Derek Leinweber, has been elected Fellow of the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Academy of Science in recognition of an outstanding career dedicated to unearthing the most fundamental secrets of matter.

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Climate change poses severe threat to bowhead whale habitat

A bowhead whale swimming in Arctic waters

New research examining 11,700 years of bowhead whale persistence throughout the Arctic projects that sea ice loss due to climate change will cause their habitat to severely contract by up to 75 per cent.

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Global childhood wasting not slowing sufficiently

A child has its arms measured to test for malnutrition.

Too many children around the world are still malnourished and too few countries are on track to address the problem that has a life-long impact on a person.

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Trial aims to help cool endometriosis pain

A woman clutches her stomach in pain

Breath work, meditation and cold-water immersion therapy are at the centre of a ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide trial which is now underway and seeking participants.

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ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n scientists describe 71 new ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n bee species

ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n resin pot bee Megachile (Austrochile) tarltoni credit David Pike

A team of ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n researchers has discovered 71 new native bee species belonging to the resin pot bees, or Megachile (Austrochile), which are unique to ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ and present in every state and territory except Tasmania.

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Climate change is turning coastal lagoons into ‘salty soup’

Birds flocking beneath the dunes of the Coorong, a coastal lagoon in South ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥. Darcy Whittaker CC-BY

The impacts of human activity and climate change are coalescing to make coastal lagoons saltier, changing the microbial life they support and the function they play in their ecosystems, according to new ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide research.

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Echidna microbiome changes while mums nurse puggle

Echidna Puggle credit Peggy Rismiller and Michael McKelvey

Research from the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide shows microbial communities in echidna pseudo-pouches undergo dramatic changes while the animal is lactating, which could help in creating an environment for their young, known as puggles, to thrive.

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