News Science Experiment - Birds …birds as well! With a bit of research, you can track the birds that visit your backyard or school yard. Materials A notebook The internet or a book for research…
Science & Environment Shop for the environment …Australian Farmers’ Markets Association, first brought the concept back from the USA, where she’d gone as a research fellow to study markets in the late 1990s. There are now more…
Science & Environment Meanwhile, the ibises are going to be totally fine without us …be wrong. Matthew Chard, an expert in ibis behaviour from the Australian National University, has spent a lot of time observing the feeding habits of these charismatic birds. His research,…
News Aw shucks: tropical oysters a real pearler for shellfish aficionados …those hailing from tropical regions have been almost completely overlooked. And yet, after reviewing the little research that does exist on reef-building tropical oysters, Marina Richardson, a doctoral candidate at…
Wildlife Cape York Peninsula's palm cockatoo …trees are a precious commodity. Palm cockatoos have very low rates of reproduction and reproductive success. My predecessor on the research program, Dr Steve Murphy, found that these long-lived birds…
News Scientists develop printable lasers …could be seeing this type of technology in our own homes in the “near future”, which would likely be within the decade, Jacek says, but this depends on the research…
History & Culture 20 Australian inventions that changed the world …Melbourne research team exploring why the commercial jet aircraft known as the Comet had suffered a series of deadly crashes. He thought it would help investigators fix what was wrong…
News Scientists begin studying bodies of whales from recent WA mass stranding …whale ears from previous research. Image credits: courtesy Curtin University The focus will then move to the ears. “Then we will do the dissection and do a micro CT scan…