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News

Rubble pile asteroids are like giant ‘space cushions’

…that’s a reasonably accurate description. But sometimes those lumps of rock aren’t as solid as they look, and turn out to be an aggregate of stones and dirt loosely bound…

Nature & Wildlife

Where the whale sharks are: New research reveals secrets of world’s biggest fish

…whale shark for a genetics study, Ningaloo, Western Australia. Image credit: Wayne Osborn Mark and other Australian marine scientists have been researching whale sharks, officially listed as endangered by the…

Nature & Wildlife

Yellow crazy ant genes are like nothing we’ve ever seen before

Named for the erratic movements they make when disturbed, these aggressive insects spray acid at their prey, targeting their eyes, legs and mouth in order to paralyse them. In great…

History & Culture

Defining Moments in Australian History: Founding of the UN

…voted for Australia to have a non-permanent seat on the Security Council in 1946–47. ‘Founding of the UN’ forms part of the National Museum of Australia’s Defining Moments in Australian History project….

Creatura with Bec Crew

Ouch, my heart: the Mareeba rock wallaby

There’s a psychological phenomenon known as ‘cute aggression’, which describes that overwhelming feeling you get when faced with something so impossibly sweet, you want to squeeze it so hard, it…

Nature Photographer of the Year

The story behind the photo: 'Nectar of Life' by Dan Jones

Dan Jones was crowned the winner of the Macro category in the 2023 Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year (AGNPOTY) competition. His winning image, titled Nectar of Life, is…

News

Organisms without brains can learn, study finds

…with sufficiently complex brains. The presumed relationship between brain complexity and cognitive ability, however, is anything but straightforward when viewed across the tree of life. This is especially true of…

Nature & Wildlife

Did Australia’s First Nations people domesticate dingoes?

…Koungoulos, Postdoctoral research fellow, Australian National University; Jane Balme, Professor Emerita of Archaeology, The University of Western Australia; Shane Ingrey, Postdoctoral research fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity…

Travel

Canada’s north lures curious travellers on awe-inspiring adventures

…from an 18th century fur-trading outpost. The world’s oldest commercial operation, Hudson’s Bay Co which was founded in 1670, was long established by the time commercial fur trading peaked. Artefacts…

Australian Geographic Adventure

Paddle Pulse: Sea kayaking and wildlife encounters

…light touch. Australia has national guidelines when it comes to approaching whales and dolphins on the water, for example, and these include not touching or feeding them, approaching from parallel…

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