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…
News Trouble in paradise for Lord Howe Island's shearwaters …revealed and removed the plastic at the time they were tagged. Jenn is receiving real-time transmissions from those tags for the next 12 months, after which they’ll drop off when…
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 New Australian research could help eradicate the spread of mosquito-borne disease …Sciences, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute and James Cook University. CSIRO Chief Executive Dr Larry Marshall said the research – published in the peer-reviewed journal PNAS on Tuesday – highlights…
News $4 million endowment for rock art research EXPERTS SAY A NEW position that will focus the funds of a $4 million endowment on Kimberley rock art, could be a turning point in the search for clues about…
News Western pygmy possum research gets a boost …western pygmy possum. A new research project is looking into the secret lives of this tiny species, which are just under 8cm long, and its cousin, the honey possum. “We…
AG Blog Dingo research wins top science prize …Australian ecosystems has been awarded this year’s Eureka Prize for Environmental Research. Through this research, a team of Australian professors demonstrated the environmental significance of the dingo, a species at…
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…
News Diving whale sharks surface to warm up …of Western Australian Ocean Institute in Crawley, and colleagues fitted tags to four whale sharks – three found at Ningaloo Reef in WA, and one at Christmas Island. The tags…
News Extinct echidna may be alive and well in WA …on the tag indicated the specimen was collected at Mount Anderson, about 90km southeast of Derby, in WA. “I was stopped in my tracks upon seeing the tag, realising it…