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Located a few hours’ drive from Brisbane’s bustling lights, the Southern Downs entice city dwellers with deep pockets looking for a lifestyle change. Key points: Wealthy city dwellers move to the Southern Downs in search of a lifestyle change Proximity to Brisbane and Gold Coast appeals to shoppers Retirees and investors are also taking advantage of the rural lifestyle and lower prices Adrian Dundas and his wife, Nancy, left their life on the Gold Coast and moved inland, pursuing the steady rhythm of regional life. Now calling Warwick home, Mr Dundas said it was the perfect location. “We’re always looking for places to move and/or invest and this is the gem here,” he said. “The environment, the geographical position, how friendly the people are, and how generous they are. The cost of living is also much better here. “It’s a beautiful place, a beautiful place to live.” The vacancy rate in the Southern Downs is 0.1 percent — one of the lowest in Queensland. ( Provided: Adrian Dundas ) T

The Southern Hemisphere’s first deep-sky telescope is poised to shed new light in some of the darkest parts of the universe, as it begins its survey of western New South Wales. Developed by Macquarie University, the Hunter Telescope has been unveiled at the Siding Spring Observatory, nestled among the mountains of the Warrumbungle Range near Coonabarabran. Project team member Sarah Caddy says the Huntsman design allows for highly specialized research into the formation and evolution of galaxies. “When we look for very dim objects, objects with low surface brightness, we want to collect as much light as possible,” he said. Built almost entirely from ready-to-use technology, the Hunter’s “eyes” are Canon’s 10 telephoto lenses. ( ABC Western Plains: Nic Healey ) “With traditional mirror-based telescopes, they can scatter light into parts of the field of view that we don’t want … that makes it very difficult to find very dim things around galaxies. “What we do is we have 10 lenses, all l

An expedition to map and survey a poorly understood region of the Atlantic Ocean is underway this week. Researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and a partner group sent a two-part, remotely operated vehicle (ROV) on a series of deep-sea dives as part of a mission called “Voyage to the Ridge 2022.” The ROV carries sensors and cameras, and records everything it finds on the ocean floor along parts of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge — one of the largest geological features on Earth. The best part: you can follow along, watching discoveries happen in real-time via a series of live streams on the NOAA website. The footage so far, of the first of many planned dives, has been astounding, and more to come. Yesterday’s dive reached the seabed at around 9pm AEST and just finished at 4am this morning (July 21). If all goes well, the current overall expedition will continue through July 29, with daily online dive streaming from approximately 8:45 p.m. to 7 a.m. AEST. Then,

Perspective of the Milky Way galaxy as seen from Earth. Credit: ESO/S An animated dive into the dusty Milky Way reveals the outline of our galaxy that formed as we looked further away from Earth. Based on new data from an interactive tool that leverages data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission and other space science datasets, astronomers have created an animation to model the dust in the Milky Way. The work was presented this week at the National Astronomy Meeting (NAM 2022) at the University of Warwick and published in Astronomy & Astrophysics . The animation shows a visible cumulative dust buildup from Earth’s local environment up to ~13,000 light-years towards the galactic center—about 10% of the total distance across the Milky Way. Nearby, dust swirls around but, further away, the concentration of dust along the galactic plane becomes apparent. Two “windows”, one above and one below the galactic plane, were also revealed.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a viral respiratory tract infection that is responsible for various thrombotic events in major blood vessels in the human body, especially deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism. [1]. These thromboembolic events are thought to arise from an immune and pro-inflammatory response that results in the production of procoagulation factors that are responsible for vascular injury. Despite the predominant venous etiology, rare reports now implicate COVID-19 in adverse arterial events such as arterial thrombosis that can lead to acute limb ischemia (ALI). [1]. ALI is an emergent vascular event that results in decreased limb blood flow and subsequent tissue hypoperfusion [2]. This article was previously presented as a poster at Michigan State University State University Emergency Medicine Resident Case Report Poster Day on February 16, 2022, and at the Henry Ford Health Systems Medical Education Research Forum on April 1, 2021. A 69-year-old w

The Wallabies find themselves in almost unfamiliar territory, with a chance to secure the newly minted Ella-Mobbs Trophy in the second Test against England in Brisbane this evening. As far as this mid-year three-Test series goes, only four of them go back to 2014. The 2015 and 2019 Rugby World Cup years meant no Tests were played in June in those years. We just went straight from Super Rugby to the shortened Rugby Championship. And of the four series, only the 2016 series against England where the Wallabies have not won the first Test. Against France in 2014, the Wallabies won in Brisbane and finished the draw in Melbourne, before completing a clean sweep of the draw in Sydney. And against France again last year, the Wallabies won again in Brisbane but dropped a second Test in Melbourne. A Noah Lolesio penalty scored the tie again in Brisbane. Fourth draw against Ireland in 2018, where again the Wallabies won the first Test in Brisbane, but then lost the draw following defeats in Mel

Background and purpose Thrombosis is one of the significant challenges associated with cardiovascular disease and the leading cause of death globally. This study aims to determine the monthly and overall mortality rates by sex and age group in hospitalized patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the prevalence of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in these patients. We also investigated whether the P.1 variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) affects DVT. Method We determined the overall prevalence of COVID-19 per gender, age, and monthly mortality using hospital data at the São José do Rio Preto School of Medicine, state of São Paulo, Brazil. Data of COVID-19 patients with DVT as determined by echo-Doppler ultrasound (EDU) were analyzed considering two time periods (before and after the onset of the predominance of the SARS-CoV-2 P. Patients with COVID-19 but without DVT comprised the control group. The first period is from March 2020 to Febru

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—For days, and even years, after a person has suffered a stroke or traumatic brain injury, they have an increased risk of developing epilepsy. Now, researchers at the Gladstone Institutes have found that star-shaped cells called astrocytes in the thalamus play a key role in making mice with brain injuries susceptible to seizures. The team also analyzed human post-mortem brain tissue and showed that the same cells identified in mice might change in the thalamus of people affected by brain injury and stroke. The findings, published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, suggest that targeting proteins in these cells can prevent long-term damage that follows brain injury. “After brain injury, the thalamus is relatively under-studied compared to other brain regions,” says Jeanne Paz, PhD, an associate researcher at Gladstone and senior author of the new study. “I hope this is just the start of a lot of new research into how important this region is in determinin