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Life on the floodplains

…oases rippling with life. Sturt, Burke and other 19th-century European explorers who searched for Australia’s mythical inland sea, would have felt vindicated had they found this. The water can last…

History & Culture

Mungo Man heads back to country

…research is the construction of a ‘Keeping Place’ – a partially subterranean, research-and-education facility, where scientists could come to study the bones underground in a crypt-like environment. Successive state and…

Biodiversity

Bright city lights are keeping ocean predators awake and hungry

…Graeme Clark, Research Associate in Ecology, UNSW Australia; Katherine Dafforn, Senior Research Associate in Marine Ecology, UNSW Australia, and Mariana Mayer-Pinto, Research Associate in marine ecology, UNSW Australia This article…

Nature & Wildlife

Sharks are mistaking humans for food, study shows

…vision. The research has the potential to change perceptions around sharks and offer new ways to prevent fatal shark bites. The team of scientists captured footage of a seal and…

Biodiversity

What’s this mystery object?

…research team goes into the colonies each night to gently coax the chicks to discharge plastic that’s accumulated in their stomachs during their first three months of life. Among the…

Science & Environment

Aboriginal Australians co-existed with megafauna for at least 17,000 years

…so much work remains to be done. There is still a great deal to learn about Australia’s ancient megafauna. Michael Westaway is a Senior Research Fellow at the Research Centre…

Science & Environment

Why I study roadkill

…protect the elusive bird, and so Emma’s studies were greatly appealing. “There’s a growing body of research suggesting that the reduction or increase of dingo populations is linked to the…

News

Music of ancient stars reveals stellar surprise

…in random directions due to “massive turbulent motion” inside the gas cloud where they form. But this research shows the overall rotation of the “stellar nursery” cloud is transferred to…

Biodiversity

These 20 Australian reptiles are set to disappear by 2040

…But many of our reptiles are at risk of the same fate as the Christmas Island forest skink: extinction. In new research published today, we identified the 20 terrestrial snakes…

Nature & Wildlife

91-year-old Australian seastar expert Loisette Marsh publishes magnum opus and reflects on an intrepid career

…and keeping in good condition precious specimens. Loisette is among a group of women oceanographers who, prior to the 1960s, weren’t permitted on research vessels, and were resigned to studying…

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Life on the floodplains

Mungo Man heads back to country

Bright city lights are keeping ocean predators awake and hungry

Sharks are mistaking humans for food, study shows

What’s this mystery object?

Aboriginal Australians co-existed with megafauna for at least 17,000 years

Why I study roadkill

Music of ancient stars reveals stellar surprise

These 20 Australian reptiles are set to disappear by 2040

91-year-old Australian seastar expert Loisette Marsh publishes magnum opus and reflects on an intrepid career