Back to the Moon: Australia’s mining expertise at forefront of new era of space exploration …to provide fuel along the way, you are saving yourself an enormous cost,” explains Professor Andrew Dempster, director of UNSW’s Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research. “If you could produce…
News Radio-tagged bees take Tasmania by swarm IN A WORLD FIRST, a swarm of 5000 bees with tiny radio tags attached to them are being released in Tasmania. For the unusual project, launched last week, CSIRO scientists…
Whale mission heads to Antarctica …aboard New Zealand’s RV Tangaroa, a government research vessel. “Virtually all the countries involved in whale research in the Southern Ocean are getting together to work on one very large…
Moreton Bay, the bay of plenty …research on dolphin behaviour, particularly communication, at Tangalooma in 2001. These days she’s working on the Moreton Bay Dolphin Research Project, established in 2014 in partnership with the Queensland Department…
What it will take to rescue the Great Barrier Reef …was a research team from the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) whose aim was to collect coral colonies that had survived mass bleaching for laboratory research back at the…
News How you can fight for Australia’s honey bees in the war against Varroa mites …still take action that was impossible elsewhere. We know Varroa-resistant bees would be the silver bullet. Despite decades of research, no fully resistant strains exist, largely because the genetics of…
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…
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…
Don't forget about the ugly flowers …in what they choose to research. Our research, published today in Nature Plants, found there’s a clear bias among scientists toward visually striking plants. This means they’re more likely chosen…
The lab rat with feathers AN AUSTRALIAN BIRD is fast on its way to becoming the best-known bird in the world. The zebra finch has been the subject of more than 1500 research papers so…