News Where the whale sharks are: New research reveals secrets of world’s biggest fish …to retrieve the tags. “Our tagging techniques in Cenderawasih Bay have been quite ground breaking,” says Abraham, who was in charge of the tagging process for all the Australian studies….
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…
Wildlife Tagging whale sharks in the Maldives …up the Maldives archipelago. On board are conservation biologists Richard Rees and Adam Harman from the Maldives Whale Shark Research Programme and the tagging expert accompanying them, Brent Stewart, of…
History & Culture An endless quest: the search for the Tasmanian tiger …Aside from these many one-off witnesses, there are a number of dedicated tiger-seekers, both in Tasmania and on the mainland, who spend a lot of money and time searching for…
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…
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…
Science & Environment Fatal shore: Why so many shark attacks? …key to understanding great white movements. Barry started attaching simple plastic identification tags to sharks in 1989, and more sophisticated ones, such as satellite tags, in 2000. Satellite tags transmit…
News Bushfire research improves prediction …time to fires and therefore a reduction in the damage they cause,” he says. The research, which was carried out in conjunction with the Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre and the…
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…
Wildlife Beetle baubles: Australia's stag beetles ABOUT 1400 species of stag beetle (family Lucanidae) have so far been scientifically described and named worldwide. Of these, 95 occur in Australia, including some of the most spectacular species….