After spreading through most of Earth’s honeybee populations, the parasite known as the Varroa mite (Varroa destructor) recently got a foothold in Australia and has begun devastating our own bees.
School camps are great fun, aren’t they? They’re a chance for students to step away from the classroom, appreciate the outdoors and be physically challenged. However, you may think differently if you suffer from claustrophobia and were compelled to endure three days crawling through a labyrinth of dark chambers!
Avalanches are terrifying things: they career down snow-covered mountains, smashing everything in their paths.
We know of one (that’s correct, only one!) person able to smell Parkinson’s disease, before the symptoms became visible some 14 years later.
Gravity hills, spook hills, magnetic hills, mystery hills, or anti-gravity hills… whatever you choose to call them, there’s a simple explanation behind these national and global phenomena.
It’s one of those yarns you hear sitting around a pub on a Friday evening and accept with a grain or two of salt.
Proteins found in ancient Neanderthal DNA might help fight modern antibiotic resistance.
Meet the adorable Mareeba rock wallaby (Petrogale mareeba), found in just one place in the world.
Remember, back in the day, when all of our dinosaur toys looked like this beautifully posed Hydrosaurus lizard?
Dotted around the Riverina and outback New South Wales are several intriguing old river red gums with hand shears embedded in their trunks.