NASA

NASA technology helps to create temperature regulated clothing for menopause

“Exploring high tech fabrics for regulating temperatures, Nicholson found that these products tended to be cooling fabrics, which ignored the cold flashes that often follow hot flashes,” said NASA of Nicholson. Source: NASA. A textile marketer was looking for ways to keep people with menopause comfortable but had no luck until she came across a…

Cape York Peninsula

362,000 hectares of Cape York land returned to traditional owners

“Today we handed back 362,000 hectares of land at Cape York Peninsula to its traditional owners,” said the Premier. Source: Queensland Premier, Twitter. The Queensland government has given back more than 360,000 hectares of land to the traditional owners of the Cape York Peninsula. Members from the Gudang/Yadhaykenu, Atambaya and Angkamuthi communities were given the…

31,000 year old amputation

Scientists find oldest surgical amputation from 31,000 years ago

The discovery has “major implications for our understanding of the history of medicine,” said Dr Tim Maloney of Griffith University. Source: Tim Maloney/Griffith University. Indonesian and Australian archaeologists have discovered the earliest known evidence of a surgical amputation in Borneo. The excavation found the remains of a young hunter-gatherer whose left leg was amputated 31,000…

Meat imports

Australia bans personal imports of meat amid food and mouth disease outbreak

“The former Government did not take this action in response to previous overseas outbreaks, but after considering the evidence, we are not prepared to accept this risk,” said Minister Watt. The Australian government has banned the importation of meat products for personal use amid the Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak in Indonesia. Minister for…