Freshly Painted Science

#Graphene seems to make everything better! Scientists at #CSIRO used their own specially designed form 'Graphair' to create a filter that makes even #sydneyharbour water drinkable. This #breakthrough technology could save lives around the world csiro.au/en/News/News-r… @CSIROnews

Final version of our new paper just published here - on understanding Chediak Higashi Syndrome doi.org/10.1016/j.jaci…

Can’t tell you how thrilled I am to be included here. royalsociety.org/grants-schemes…

Dolphins have names?! New research from Uni of Western Australia showed that male bottlenose #dolphins retain individual 'names' for their friends and rivals @uwanews sbs.com.au/news/audiotrac… #dolphindiscovery #westernaustralia

Got extra cash? Dinosaur fossils auctions are now a thing! But palaeontologists are concerned that valuable specimens in private hands are lost to science abc.net.au/news/2018-06-0… #fossils #dinosaurs #palaeontology

A new edible #biosensor containing 44 million #bacteria can detect bleeding inside digestive tract and send a signal to a cellphone! Similar sensor pills could one day provide information about cancer, ulcers and other changes in your #gut sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/b…

Only 2 days to go! Make sure you check out Adlelaide's great new #scitech museum @modatunisa opening this Friday! #technology

Did you know that you can visit #CERN on board of a racing drone? youtube.com/watch?v=sL3PK0… #drones

At the start of cold and flu season in Australia, may I please remind you to cover your mouth? Your germs can travel further than you think! #flu #fluseason #cold

Why would scientists want to 3D print replicas of turtles and toads? To study mating rituals, of course! sciencemag.org/news/2018/04/h… #3dprinting #turtles

Your kids' muscle endurance is so good that they beat elite athletes in fitness tests! @FrontPhysiol frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #sportscience #Athletes

It's today! The biggest ever map of our #galaxy based on data collected by the @ESAGaia space telescope is finally being released and it includes 1.7 billion stars! #Gaia #ESA #starmap #GaiaDR2 #space #telescope #Gaiadata #stars

The most dangerous vaccine is the one not given! #ImmunizationWeek #worldImmunizationWeek #immunization #vaccines

Move over, double helix! Meet the new kid on the block - i-motif DNA looks like a ladder and was just found for the first time in human cells! @NatureChemistry nature.com/articles/s4155… @GarvanInstitute #Chemistry #DNA #iDNA #imotif #science

Will biomedical #tattoo monitor your health in the future? Read about implantable #sensors that detect high blood calcium and produce dark pigment for early detection of diseases @ScienceTM #science #health #scicomms

#Graphene just broke another record - this time squeezing the light to the space of just one atom! In light of this, it seems only appropriate to bring this up again! Research published @sciencemagazine #science #light #scicomm #ultimatesqueeze twitter.com/drawforscience…

Apparently studies of movements of tiny sea creatures were once called the 'synchronized swimming of sea monkeys'. But according to new research @nature they drive mixing of ocean's nutrients playing an important role in our planet's health mobile.nytimes.com/2018/04/20/sci… #ocean #ecology

The mystery of #bubbles sinking in a pint of #Guinness solved! It's not stout magic but pure physics and it's all about the shape of the classic pint glass. @GuinnessIreland #beer #pubphysics #fluid @pintofscienceAU @RiAus australiascience.tv/physics-explai… @GuinnessGB #drinkforscience

#Diamonds are the girl's best friends - especially when they come from a lost #planet! Analysis of a diamond-studded #meteorite found in Nubian Dessert suggests that it originated from a large planet that passed near Earth billions of years ago! #universe nature.com/articles/s4146…

The naked mole rats may be bald and wrinkly but #age is just a number for them! Their risk of death doesn't seem to increase with age and first signs of #aging are observed at a time double the predicted maximum lifespan: elifesciences.org/articles/34427 @elife #SciComms #youth

Male Costa's hummingbirds sure know how to impress the ladies! They dive in the air creating a high-pitched chirp and use their tails as megaphones to aim the sound straight at their sweethearts @CurrentBiology cell.com/current-biolog… #Birdsoftwitter #love #scicomms