Hidden housemates: the termites that eat our homes
Termite damage costs Australian homes at least a billion dollars each year – but they are absolutely vital for ecosystems.
Termite damage costs Australian homes at least a billion dollars each year – but they are absolutely vital for ecosystems.
Koalas are under threat from a range of factors, from urban expansion to climate change. Unfortunately there is no quick fix, and it may be that not all populations can be saved.
CSIRO is building FAST, a 500m-diameter radio telescope, in China using cutting edge technology.
A huge area of the nation’s inland was once smothered with invasive prickly pear.
Full podcast of Tim Flannery’s Trailblazers Talk, ‘Kangaroos and climate change’, held at the Australian Museum earlier this year.
An expedition team from the British Cave Research Association working with local experts has discovered 57 new caves in central Vietnam.
The Earth is full of many varied species from the largest mammals to the tiniest organisms. But we now think there could be ten times more species than was originally thought.
Behind the scenes of the cutting-edge Perth Wave Energy Project in Western Australia.
They’ve come from electorates throughout the continent and worked at occupations as varied as coalminer, drover, doctor and solicitor. Sometimes revered, sometimes despised, 28 men and 1 woman – represented by their official portraits – have taken on the nation’s top job, often heralding and at other times following winds of change. Whether they served for eight days or 19 years, each took on the responsibility of being prime minister of Australia.
It might not sound like the best music in the world, but Australia was the first by a matter of months at playing a tune on a computer.