Welcome to A Week in Science, this week finding a lost continent, bendy batteries and creating virtual humans for medical research.
An international team has found a continent lost beneath the waves of the Indian Ocean.
Originally the small continent would have sat between Madagascar and India when the two were joined together up until around 19 million years ago.
The continent was found by examining sands on the island of Mauritius which contained zircons dated at between 660 million and 1,917 million years old, predating the 9 million year old rocks that produced the sand.
And no, this is not the fabled Atlantis.
Queensland researchers have proposed regulating the trade in rhino horn to reduce the levels of poaching.
Rhino poaching in South Africa has increased by 200% each year for the last five years and if that continues, Africa's wild rhinos may be extinct within two decades.
The Queenslanders plan is to sustainably harvest the horns from live rhinos and thus control the market.
Current demand for rhino horn could be met by the 5,000 rhinos already on private conservation reserves.
Baby brain starts to develop and process speech in the womb.
US researchers have developed a silicon battery which can be bent, stretched and twisted.
European research shows an easy way to convert methanol into hydrogen as a potential fuel source and plants prefer wild sex.
Wild insects pollinate crops more effectively than human-controlled populations of bees.
And finally this week, the multiple uses for avatars and virtual humans.
The Royal Society in London devoted a whole issue of their journal to the applications of avatars in medical and other research.
Virtual humans are now so sophisticated they can be used to test prosthetic limbs, understand rare genetic diseases and even model an asthma attack.
We are at the stage where there really isn't anything a good avatar can't do.
Thanks Paul, I'll take it from here.
We're halfway through fringe at the Science Exchange.
This week, comedy from Seaton & Jazz and coming soon music by Ologism.
And don't forget the Andrew Baird Art Exhibition Illuminations continues in our future space.
And that's been the highlights of another Big Week in Science. For more on these and other science stories, go to the RIO's website, rios.org.au
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I'm Paul Willis and on behalf of the RIO's team, I'll see you next week.
