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Destinations

A concise history of Antarctic exploration

…Palmer was searching for new sealing grounds when he found continental Antarctica in November 1820, and in February 1821, English-born American sailor John Davis, also seeking seals, claimed to be…

Science & Environment

Science glitterati share their Eureka moments at Australian Museum

Heralded as the ‘Oscars of Science’, the Australian Museum Eureka Prizes celebrate excellence in the fields of scientific research and engagement. In honour of these outstanding achievements, the Australian Museum, Sydney, is…

Science & Environment

Why the beach is an amazing place to teach children science

…the many, changes things happening with the sand and surf. Chris Speldewinde, Research fellow, Research for Educational Impact Institute, Deakin University This article is republished from The Conversation under a…

Nature & Wildlife

300 million dead: the carnage foxes inflict in just one year

This research, the first to quantify the national impact of foxes on Australian wildlife, also compares the results to similar studies on cats. And we found foxes and cats collectively…

Travel

Pioneering spirit meets industry-leading expedition cruising

…the Ross Ice Shelf, Zodiac cruise icebergs, visit research stations, observe whales and seals, visit some of Antarctica’s largest penguin colonies, walk on the ice with Emperor Penguins and step…

News

Bunbury dolphins serve up calamari for dinner

…a decade – during research funded by the South West Marine Research Program, led by the Murdoch University Cetacean Research Unit and based at the Bunbury Dolphin Discovery Centre –…

Science & Environment

Nice weather for aliens

…a frigid, arid world, with an atmosphere just a tenuous wisp of its former glory. The search for life out there Astronomers should soon begin to discover the first truly…

Nature & Wildlife

Dingo descendants unveiled

New zooarchaeological research from The University of Sydney (USYD) has revealed dingoes derived from New Guinean singing dogs and the highland wild dogs of Irian Jaya – not pariah dogs…

Science & Environment

Female bird song ignored by science, researchers say

FEMALE BIRD song has often been explained as functionless, a by-product of selection for song in males or a hormonal abnormality. This led to much of the research on bird…

Climate

New interactive heat map to help Darwin residents stay cool in a warming world

…“using real-world experiments” to measure “improvements in liveability, sustainability and resilience”, the lab looks at ways to reduce heat impacts on the Northern Territory’s tropical capital. Its release follows recent research…

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