Flora & Fauna This seabird prefers to poo while flying …a tracking device on Cabbage Tree Island, NSW, while conducting research. Image credit: supplied by Dr Yuna Kim Dr Kim added that while her own research is not specifically focused…
News Bees can add and subtract, new research shows …the course of the training. Showing that a bee can combine simple arithmetic and symbolic learning has identified numerous areas of research to expand into, such as whether other animals…
Nature & Wildlife Giant Cuttlefish: Undetermined decline …But she found almost no research, she says. “All of the information you need to manage a population was missing.” In 1998 Karina persuaded the Fisheries Research & Development Corporation…
Science & Environment Citizens science: using the power of the masses …occurs in this area may one day be of interest to others.” Social media helps facilitate science research IN SIMILAR BACKYARDS, offices and classrooms, inner-city reserves and national parks, citizen…
Nature & Wildlife Quolls eat humans: Research reveals 111 times they made a meal of us …it had been gnawed away by native cats (quolls). The body was very much decomposed”. This report is not isolated. My recent research has found 111 accounts between 1831 and…
Biodiversity Tasmanian devils are evolving rapidly to fight their deadly cancer FOR THE PAST 20 years, an infectious cancer has been killing wild Tasmanian devils, creating a massive challenge for conservationists. But new research, published today in Nature Communications, suggests that…
Nature & Wildlife Too ugly for science RESEARCH INTO AUSTRALIA’S mammal species can be roughly grouped into three categories – the good, the bad and the ugly, according to a recent review by Western Australian scientists. And,…
News Research on feeding the world wins PM’s Prize for Science …Professor Graham Farquhar’s research has transformed our understanding of photosynthesis, led to the development of drought-resistant wheat varieties and probed a mystery about declining evaporation rates and wind speeds around…
Nature & Wildlife Fighting for Australia's precious sea pups “TREATMENT OR CONTROL?” Mel Stonnill, research and operations coordinator at Seal Bay Conservation Park, calls out above a blustery onshore wind. The question is directed to Dr Rachael Gray and…
History & Culture Indigenous fire management began more than 11,000 years ago, new research shows …world. In Australia, most fire occurs in the vast tropical savannas of the country’s north. In new research published in Nature Geoscience, we show Indigenous management of fire in these…
