News Dingoes use tools to solve novel problems DINGOES ARE MUCH SMARTER than humans give them credit for, according to new research. While the native canines are known for their smarts in hunting skills, they are also able…
News Deep-sea mud source of '21st-century gold' …many other advanced technologies. These elements carry exotic names such as neodymium, promethium and yttrium but despite their ‘rare-earth’ tag are in fact abundant in the planet’s crust. The problem,…
News Rare gum rises from Black Saturday ashes …Work is also being done at the reserve between Taggerty and Buxton to control other threats to the gums, including a native parasitic climber, cassytha, and grazing by rabbits, wombats…
News Sharks are fantastic navigators SHARKS ARE FAMED for extraordinary hearing, motion sensing and smell, but new research shows some species can also navigate with pinpoint accuracy over long distances. “Simply put, they know where…
News Echidnas have sex while sleeping, study says …among the most common mammals in Australia, little has been known about the reproductive practices of short-beaked echidnas (Tachyglossus aculeatus). However, an Australian Geographic Society-sponsored research project, at the University…
News Speed of a lamb's bleat linked to survival …Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) and colleagues at the Sheep Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) collected records from 15,000 lambs, more than 6000 adult females and 284 sires from eight…
Destinations Climbing Southeast Asia's highest mountain …sometimes their kids tag along (just to rub it in). Another excuse to stop comes in the form of rest shelters, open-sided huts called pondoks. Each has a toilet, some…
News Victorians to get free electric car trial …seeing big cuts in transport, and the simple way of achieving big cuts in transport is to move to the new technologies,” he says. But with a price tag of…
News Scientists eavesdrop on fish chatter …protected. Vulnerability The study will extend previous research on mulloway and focus on other commercially important seafood species. These include snapper, black bream and the poorly understood dhufish. Miles adds…
News Convict sites get World Heritage listing …the Marshall Islands and the South Pacific nation of Kiribati – earned their first World Heritage tags. The full list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites can be found at: whc.unesco.org/en/list…
