Algal blooms: a colourful danger
Algal blooms cause serious, even fatal, problems in our waterways, but we know little about what causes them.
Algal blooms cause serious, even fatal, problems in our waterways, but we know little about what causes them.
Trees have the same kind of biological clock that causes humans to suffer from jetlag, new research shows.
Australia’s iconic wattle plants are under growing threat from a foreign disease, a new report says.
Warming seas due to climate change have led to one-quarter of temperate seaweed species to head south.
A new study debunks the idea that modern species of cycads were present at the time dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
Scientists are using new technology to put the microscopic world of pollen in focus.
This year’s winners of the PM Science Prizes include chemists who rewrote the textbooks on plastics.
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The agave plant, from which tequila is derived, may be the answer to Australia’s thirst for fuel.
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