Nature & Wildlife Coloured candy for the soul: Aussie Mick's search for beauty is found in the Australian landscape …every minute of it! “My images are an expression of my search for beauty and my never-ending quest to connect with nature. Western Australia offers a strong palette of contrasting…
Biodiversity 'You easily feel helpless and overwhelmed': What it’s like being a young person studying the Great Barrier Reef …reef scientists. “We have to relearn how the system is now working,” he says. “It is a huge research challenge for the next generation of marine scientists. “Many of my…
Nature & Wildlife Dingoes are genetically different from domestic dogs, new research reveals …are fundamentally different from domestic dogs. In research published today in Science Advances, in collaboration with 25 researchers from four countries, we show dingoes are an early offshoot of modern…
Climate Rising CO2 predicted to make fish 'drunk' …and others more resilient,” said Philip, who wasn’t involved in this recent UNSW research. Earlier research had previously shown Atlantic Cod (Gadus morhua) were able to detect water with elevated…
Nature & Wildlife VIDEO: Humpback whales fight, and more... THE CENTRE FOR WHALE RESEARCH brings us some incredible footage of Australian humpback males fighting at night using thermal cameras, enormous local pygmy blue whales, killer whales, and more. Taken…
News Rare documents reveal search for Australia …by explorer Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, who was appealing to the King of Spain for funding to search for the fabled southern continent. The artefacts round out the library’s collection, which…
Nature & Wildlife The weird world of Australian sea snakes …snakes were relatively poorly known, but a recent explosion of research interest in them, much of it here in Australia, has led to a raft of new discoveries. Sea snakes…
History & Culture Messages from Mungo …Jim argues that the bones have yielded all they can to research and that the NSW State Government and ANU should fast-track their return. “Keeping him in a cardboard box…
News Searching the stars: how scientists discovered 49 unknown galaxies …galaxies. These include the MIGHTEE-HI and LADUMA surveys, the latter of which will use MeerKAT for more than 3,000 hours searching one part of the sky for hydrogen gas in…
Science & Environment First search for atmospheres around Earth-sized exoplanets ASTRONOMER’S USING NASA’s Hubble telescope have conducted the first search for atmospheres around two temperate, Earth-sized planets outside our Solar System – and found indications that increase their chances of…
