News The 2016 Eureka Prizes showcase the best in Australian science …This is the ultimate ambition behind the research of the 2016 UNSW Eureka Prize for Scientific Research winners, which was awarded to Melissa Little and Minoru Takasato from the Murdoch…
History & Culture Lasseter's Reef: Will it ever be found? …countless adventurers to launch expeditions to Central Australia in search of the long-lost gold quarry. To date, however, the reef, which Lasseter claimed was laden with gold and measured some…
Science & Environment What’s the benefit in making human-animal hybrids? …Cell Research call for research where human gametes could be generated from human-animal chimeras to be prohibited, but supports research using human-animal chimeras conducted under appropriate review and oversight. Chimeric…
Science & Environment Record high to record low: what on earth is happening to Antarctica’s sea ice? …sea ice hold it is certain that the large year-to-year swings of Antarctica’s climate will continue to make this a challenging but critical environment for research. Nerilie Abram, Senior Research…
AG Society News Search continues for sponsorship awardee The review panel for the Nancy Bird Walton Sponsorship met on Thursday 11 February. After much discussion all members of the panel were in agreement that the project chosen should…
AG Blog Searching for the Tasmanian tiger in PNG IN DECEMBER 2010, the AG Society-sponsored adventurer Andrew Hughes headed into the wilderness in an attempt to see if the Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine – declared officially extinct in 1986…
Wildlife The puzzle of the platypus: could time be up for this iconic Aussie animal? …last year University of Adelaide-led research began exploring a hormone in this complex chemical cocktail as a potential new diabetes treatment. Who’d have thought answers to two of the biggest…
