Science & Environment
Fungi fashion featured at Melbourne Fashion Week
RMIT scientists are developing a range of exciting new materials made from mushrooms – and ‘leather’ is one of them.
Category: Science & Environment
Science & Environment
Rare white platypus spotted in northern NSW
Turtle researchers working in the New England Tablelands region have documented repeated sightings of a white platypus.
Science & Environment
Scalloped hammerheads gather in seas off Perth
Unlike nearly every other species of shark, scalloped hammerheads are highly social. They gather in large groups, or aggregations, numbering in the hundreds. But why? We don’t know.
News
Did Australia’s First Nations people domesticate dingoes?
Dingoes are an iconic Australian wild animal, with close links to Australia’s First Nations people throughout the mainland. Yet the origins and history of these animals are shrouded in obscurity.
History & Culture
How the South American jacaranda became a symbol of Australian spring
Jacaranda season is beginning across Australia as an explosion of vivid purple spreads in a wave from north to south.
Science & Environment
Can air travel ever really be sustainable?
A raft of new technologies promise to make jetting off on holiday less damaging to our planet, but what difference will they really make, and should we all be ditching the departure lounge for the railway station and the bus depot?
News
Funnier than the original: Laughing frog found to be two separate species
Citizen scientists across Australia have helped uncover a frog species new to science, which has a longer ‘laugh’ than the original tree frog species.
News
New Great Barrier Reef fish species discovered living ‘in plain sight’
Researchers are celebrating after a University of the Sunshine Coast-led project detected the previously unknown species named Lady Elliot Shrimp Goby on a tiny coral cay.
News
Museum staff discover hundreds of mammals glow under UV light
Did you know that some mammals glow when exposed to UV light, and it’s not just a handful of the warm-blooded critters?
News
New major threat to Reef discovered by scientists
Scientists have identified a major new threat to the Great Barrier Reef – invisible groundwater flows delivering nutrients at harmful levels.