News Spiders customise webs based on diet DEPENDING ON THEIR nutrient needs, spiders can customise their webs to catch different types of prey, new research suggests. Spider webs are specialised tools for catching prey and each species…
Nature & Wildlife Clear-cutting koala country …the survey work, which, Dean explains, include broad-area habitat searches, acoustic wildlife monitoring and, most recently, thermal drone imaging to help better understand how wildlife populations respond to timber harvesting…
Science & Environment Ancient earthquakes point to modern dangers …North Island. The research was presented in September at the European Science Foundation Conference, held in Austria. Finding faults Using sonar to scan layers underneath sea floor, the scientists have…
Nature & Wildlife Sixteen-year-long study reveals secret lives of purple-crowned fairy-wrens …secret lives of these elusive birds as part of a 16-year research collaboration with the Australian Wildlife Conservancy. The research project, which closely monitors a 15 kilometre stretch of land…
Science & Environment Sleep: we need it and we still don't know why …important for memory consolidation, and the flip side, forgetting,” says Associate Professor Kurt Lushington, director of the Centre for Sleep Research at the University of South Australia. “You need to…
Biodiversity Biodiversity hotspot in WA explained RESEARCH INTO THE birds and mammals that pollinate banksias and eucalypts in south-west Western Australia is challenging existing theories on the region’s enormous biodiversity. The Southwest Australia Ecoregion is a…
News Plants can learn new tricks THEY MAY LOOK BENIGN, but plants are much more intelligent than we think. New Australian research has shown that plants are capable of learning new tricks. The Mimosa pudica, known…
Biodiversity Sharks important to reef conservation, study finds …biggest issue is the lack of data,” Colin added. Aside from building on prior research, Meeuwig said in a statement that their continued data analysis and additional research will serve…
Science & Environment Environmental scholarships underway Seven top students have begun their environment work after being awarded a BAYERboost scholarship for the 2011-2012 summer holidays. The scholarship funds have gone to help research endangered species, climate…
Nature & Wildlife World population milestone: The impact of 8 billion people explained …the more challenging. How to provide health care for 8 billion+ people Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite Professor of Health Systems Research Health care for the eight billion humans now on Earth…
