The worlds of science and art are colliding around Australia, and in the doing they’re inspiring climate action, citizen science and a sustainable future. Here’s some of our favourite examples.
The new Virtual Australian Museum of Palaeontology offers free access to 600 million years of digital Australian fossils, from enigmatic early lifeforms to gigantic extinct marsupials.
Tripling its size, Macquarie Island Marine Park’s extension is set to protect ocean and its precious inhabitants.
Calling citizen scientists! Take snaps to fill the gaps.
A new kind of art, eons in the making, illuminates hearts and minds in the Red Centre.
Australia’s wetlands are pulsing with life after three years of above‑average rainfall, fuelled by La Niña weather patterns.
The critically endangered turtle has been found in Queensland’s Baffle Creek for the first time.
A collaboration between Australian and Indonesian researchers is uncovering some of the mysteries of the world’s largest fish.
They’re well known for their industrious work, but now a species of ant on Kangaroo Island is also showing that it is skilled at ‘playing dead’, a behaviour that University of South Australia researchers believe is a recorded world first.
New research flips our knowledge of ‘rubble pile’ asteroids on its head.