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…
News Eureka Prizes 2017: see the winners …Aboriginal Heritage Project. Murdoch Children’s Research Institute associate professor Andrew Steer won the Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre Eureka Prize for Infectious Diseases Research. With the the University of New…
History & Culture The lost children of Daylesford …search of wild goats. The boys didn’t return. Concerned, their fathers and a group of neighbours spent the afternoon searching the junction of Wombat, Stony and Sailors creeks for the…
News This ground-breaking Aussie study told the world ultrasound and IVF are safe …from fertility, to diet, and developmental learning. The Raine Study began in 1989, when 2900 pregnant women volunteered to take part in research looking at the effects of ultrasound during…
Wildlife Top Aussie animal science stories of 2016 …in human sperm and could provide targets for infertility research in humans. 7. You can teach an old koala new tricks July 2016 Promising new research showed that it is…
News Eureka 2015: Australia's top science prizes announced …out patterns from a huge cloud of data Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre Eureka Prize for Infectious Diseases Research Marc Pellegrini and Greg Ebert, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of…
Science & Environment Solomon Islands: The deadly mosquitos …research hopes to defeat them. I’m here to see something of what Neil Lobo, scientific director of the Malaria Transmission Consortium (MTC) calls, rather drily, “real malaria”. Malaria is the…
Science & Environment Face to face with 'the Hobbit' of Indonesia …background research before starting to approximate a face, this project also included a steep learning curve about the relevant palaeoanthropology (the research that has been undertaken with H. floresiensis has…