Nature & Wildlife
Fish create ‘mosquito nets’ to fend off parasites
Tropical parrotfish create mucous cocoons to protect themselves against blood-sucking aquatic parasites.
Science & Environment
Prime Minister’s Science Prizes awarded
The top accolades for Aussie science are awarded for work on a fossil fish giving birth, cloned insulin and blood clotting.
Nature & Wildlife
Great white shark freed from plastic noose
An ailing great white named Strappy has been freed from a plastic noose by divers in South Australia.
Science & Environment
Australia’s redbacks invade New Zealand
One of Australia’s deadliest spiders has set up home across the Tasman.
Nature & Wildlife
Fossil find challenges marsupial mole evolution
The discovery of a 20-million-year-old fossil suggests marsupial moles evolved in rainforests, not deserts.
Science & Environment
Discovering the dinosaurs Down Under
From killers of the freezing Antarctic wastes to titanic herbivores, Australian dinos are being dug up in great numbers.
Nature & Wildlife
Whales suffer from sunburn too
Just like us whales get sunburned – and the problem is increasing, according to a new study.
Science & Environment
Ancient earthquakes point to modern dangers
The traces of ancient earthquakes under the seafloor in New Zealand are helping predict future tremors.
Science & Environment
Mini black holes reveal their true power
An Australian telescope is helping rewrite the physics of black holes by studying a miniature one.
Science & Environment
Fighting for the Snowy River
A decade has passed since water returned to the degraded Snowy River. Will this once mighty icon ever recover?