Tag: Science & Environment

Celebrating Tidbinbilla

I’m often asked about the space probes that are leaving the solar system, never to return. There are five of them: Pioneer 10 and 11 and Voyager 1 and 2 – all launched in the 1970s – and New Horizons, which began its journey to Pluto and beyond in 2006.

Planktivores surprise scientists with diversity of shapes

For decades, experts believed that plankton-feeding fishes – or planktivores – share a specialised, uniform design. However, new research shows not only is this false, but they also display the widest range of body forms of any feeding group among reef fishes.

Zombie ants found in Top End

Strange-looking ants being controlled by a fungus have been discovered on Jawoyn country in the Northern Territory during a Bush Blitz expedition.

Biodiversity

Big bush corridor

One of the world’s largest land rehabilitation projects is transforming paddocks into natural paradises in the south-west of Western Australia.