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    For some kids, texting ability brings worries into socialising

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/351-for-some-kids-texting-ability-brings-worries-into-socialising
    13 Jul 2017: Texting could be creating a literacy issue for children, but it is not the problem most people would expect. In a presentation to Education Transforms 2017 in Hobart, written language expert Dr Nenagh Kemp said her research with colleagues in the UK
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    How researchers are trying to save Australia's precious native…

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/331-how-researchers-are-trying-to-save-australias-precious-native-animals
    28 Jun 2017: There has been a widespread decline of many native marsupials, with 29 Australian mammals now extinct – the highest rate of mammal extinction in the world. A further 30 per cent of our surviving mammal species are now listed as threatened. 29the
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    Tracking the clast to the blast

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/360-tracking-the-clast-to-the-blast
    21 Jul 2017: Did you know that when an underwater volcano erupts, the pumice clasts it creates travel huge distances floating on the oceans, shedding mass as they go? Dr Martin Jutzeler, Lecturer in Earth Sciences, is investigating how far (and fast) these
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    Breastfed babies likely to be a healthier weight as they grow up

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/334-breastfed-babies-likely-to-be-a-healthier-weight-as-they-grow-up
    28 Jun 2017: Babies who are fed only breast milk for the first three months of life appear to be much more likely to maintain a healthy weight trajectory, with the benefits possibly lasting through to early adulthood, new research shows. The study, published
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    Native bees best

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/328-native-bees-best
    22 Jun 2017: Many of us feel we are too busy to stop and smell the roses. Even when we do, few of us would notice how the behaviour of native bees buzzing through the garden varies from the introduced variety. However, research students like Melanie Bottrill who
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    Whale warning signs revealed in historical records

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/329-whale-warning-signs-revealed-in-historical-records
    23 Jun 2017: A study of historic whaling records has revealed there were warning signs that populations of commercially harvested whales were heading for global collapse up to 40 years before the event. The research by scientists from the Institute for Marine
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    Delving into the "black books" of convict knowledge

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/325-delving-into-the-black-books-of-convict-knowledge
    20 Jun 2017: In 1803, the first of almost 73,000 convicts landed on what was then called Van Diemen’s Land. Over the course of the next 50 years convict clerks kept meticulous records of each new arrival in leather-bound volumes. Pouring over the voluminous
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    Don’t worry about the huge Antarctic iceberg...

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/344-dont-worry-about-the-huge-antarctic-iceberg
    7 Jul 2017: Icebergs breaking off Antarctica, even massive ones, do not typically concern glaciologists. But the impending birth of a new massive iceberg could be more than business as usual for the frozen continent. The Larsen C ice shelf, the fourth-largest
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    This PhD student is making concerts sound better

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/316-this-phd-student-is-making-concerts-sound-better
    16 Jun 2017: How do you know if a concert venue is going to make an evening of music amazing or just OK? You ask an engineer. Specifically, an acoustician, like University of Tasmania Engineering PhD student Lily Panton. Lily studies the acoustics of concert
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    Unmasking the nature of fire

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/326-unmasking-the-nature-of-fire
    21 Jun 2017: Professor David Bowman’s seminal 2009 paper on the role of fire in shaping Earth’s ecology has been cited well over 800 times, but as he straps his bikes on the car, preparing for another brief soiree into the Tasmanian bush, the world expert on
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