
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.
RMIT scientists are developing a range of exciting new materials made from mushrooms – and ‘leather’ is one of them.
Turtle researchers working in the New England Tablelands region have documented repeated sightings of a white platypus.
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.
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.
Jacaranda season is beginning across Australia as an explosion of vivid purple spreads in a wave from north to south.
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?
Citizen scientists across Australia have helped uncover a frog species new to science, which has a longer ‘laugh’ than the original tree frog species.
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.
Did you know that some mammals glow when exposed to UV light, and it’s not just a handful of the warm-blooded critters?
Scientists have identified a major new threat to the Great Barrier Reef – invisible groundwater flows delivering nutrients at harmful levels.