News Searching the stars: how scientists discovered 49 unknown galaxies …galaxies. These include the MIGHTEE-HI and LADUMA surveys, the latter of which will use MeerKAT for more than 3,000 hours searching one part of the sky for hydrogen gas in…
News First search for atmospheres around Earth-sized exoplanets ASTRONOMER’S USING NASA’s Hubble telescope have conducted the first search for atmospheres around two temperate, Earth-sized planets outside our Solar System – and found indications that increase their chances of…
Science & Environment Searching for 'Planet Nine' …begun searching through astronomical surveys, such as the WISE survey, the Catalina Sky Survey, and the Pan STARRS surveys in the hope of making a sighting. So far, nothing has…
Science & Environment Searching for Aussie dinosaurs …they’re unable to find it. They spend half an hour searching the vast, flat landscape – and find a third scatter of dinosaur bones in the process. Recently excavated bones…
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…
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…
News NASA launches Europa Clipper into space in search for signs of life on Jupiter’s moon …advanced scientific instruments, the unmanned Europa Clipper will perform more than 40 fly-bys, searching for signs of habitability and potential life in this alien environment. A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket…
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,”…
Nature & Wildlife In search of our mysterious painted-snipe There were no Australian painted-snipes the morning I searched the drainage ditches near Brisbane Airport in November 2023. Although one had been photographed there days earlier, the wily wader eluded…
