News If K'gari (Fraser Island) didn't exist, neither would the Great Barrier Reef, research finds …tropics if K’gari did not direct it off the shelf. Our research has established the age of K’gari as being older than the Greater Barrier Reef. This suggests the reef…
News Dingoes are genetically different from domestic dogs, new research reveals …are fundamentally different from domestic dogs. In research published today in Science Advances, in collaboration with 25 researchers from four countries, we show dingoes are an early offshoot of modern…
Science & Environment Searching for Australia's tallest trees: Karris …Tall flowering trees CLARE WAS OUR sixth big tree in two days. We’d been searching because no-one really knows how big karris get. You hear pub talk in old forestry…
News Best science and nature photos awarded …Early Career Research Dr Rowena Martin, Research School of Biology at the Australian National University Research: Mechanisms of drug resistance in the malaria parasite Leadership in Science Martin Green, Executive…
Science & Environment Meet the couple that travelled Australia in search of the best swimming spots …present swimming as a solo activity, avoiding peak seasons and searching for solitude. “We’ve included the more isolated spots as well, but we also wanted to capture the Australian identity,”…
Adventure Searching for Shambhala …explorers and documentary makers have sought to find the location of Hilton’s Shangri-La, a place created in an authors mind. In 2002 it seemed that at last the search was…
Wildlife Searching for the marsupial mole …expedition to search for signs of the itjaritjari, or southern marsupial mole, in the Simpson Desert. It has so far been found throughout the Great Victoria Desert and the southern…
Science & Environment Female bird song ignored by science, researchers say FEMALE BIRD song has often been explained as functionless, a by-product of selection for song in males or a hormonal abnormality. This led to much of the research on bird…
News 2014 Eureka Prizes for science winners unveiled …Interdisciplinary Scientific Research Winner: SEARCH Project, University of Melbourne University of New South Wales Eureka Prize for Scientific Research Winner: B-cell Team, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research…
Travel How do you catch a killer in Oz? …Hervey Bay, in addition to continuing its photo-identification programme, PWF has commenced a new research study looking at the body condition of the whales in the bay. This research uses…