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Cashless payments
drive spending
People using cashless methods of payment
tend to spend more when shopping, a
University of Adelaide study shows.
The study suggests the cashless effect
leads people to spend more when purchasing
products that are typically used to signal
status, such as jewellery. However, the effect
was not observed when donating or tipping.
“To prevent spending more than
planned, we recommend consumers carry
cash instead of cards whenever they can, as
it acts as a self-control method,” says
University of Adelaide PhD candidate
Lachlan Schomburgk, who led the study.
Bringing oysters back to life
“When using cash, people physically
count and hand over notes and coins, making
the act of spending more salient. If nothing is
physically handed over, it’s easy to lose track
of how much is spent.”
“In late 2020, 14 limestone boulder reefs
were constructed, and it took just two and
a half years for the habitat to become a
thriving marine metropolis,” the University’s
Dr Dominic McAfee says.
After a century of functional extinction on
the Australian mainland, a Flat oyster reef is
now flourishing once more in the waters off
metropolitan Adelaide.
“The rate of recovery of this benthic
ecosystem demonstrates the latent
resilience of degraded oyster
communities and the capacity for
effective marine restorations
to achieve rapid ecological recoveries.”
GLOBALLY, 85 PER CENT
OF OYSTER REEFS HAVE
BEEN LOST.
New drug for aggressive
breast cancer
A promising drug could lead to a new
treatment for the most aggressive form of
breast cancer, which affects thousands of
women each year.
A PRE-CLINICAL STUDY
LED BY THE UNIVERSITY
OF ADELAIDE FOUND THE
NEW DRUG SUCCESSFULLY
INHIBITS THE GROWTH OF
TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST
CANCER WITHOUT ANY
TOXIC SIDE EFFECTS.
L-R- Triple negative breast cancer cells before treatment and after treatment
“This is an exciting development in the
battle against triple negative breast cancer,
which is the most aggressive form of the
disease,” says Associate Professor Theresa
Hickey, an internationally recognised
breast cancer expert at the University of
Adelaide’s Dame Roma Mitchell Cancer
Research Laboratories.
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