Photography Coloured candy for the soul: Aussie Mick's search for beauty is found in the Australian landscape …every minute of it! “My images are an expression of my search for beauty and my never-ending quest to connect with nature. Western Australia offers a strong palette of contrasting…
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 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 Searching for space rocks …easier any search would be. Their analysis showed that the object came in at a very steep angle, with a velocity of 50,000km/h, and punched down low in the atmosphere,…
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,”…
Science & Environment 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…
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…
