News 2018 Eureka Prizes: WINNERS …Diseases Research Centre Eureka Prize for Innovation in Medical Research: CF Air ANSTO Eureka Prize for Innovative Use of Technology: Wendy Erber, Kathryn Fuller and Henry Hui, University of Western…
Wildlife Time is running out for these seven frog species …Southern Cross University; Benjamin Scheele a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ecology at James Cook University; Lee Berger is a Senior Research Fellow, James Cook University, and Lee Skerratt, Principal Research…
Science & Environment Face to face with 'the Hobbit' of Indonesia …background research before starting to approximate a face, this project also included a steep learning curve about the relevant palaeoanthropology (the research that has been undertaken with H. floresiensis has…
News Bubble findings aid cell research …enabled the team to study the collisions at various speeds. Technology measures tiny force The outcome of the research was a new way to measure what happens when bubbles bounce…
News 'Boss crocs' rule complex social system …satellite tagging to record the location and movement of male and female estuarine crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus) during the breeding and nesting season. Researchers say the findings, published recently in the…
News Bird-watchers use iPhones to track cockatoos …have already tracked 70 tagged cockatoos that frequent the Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney, using an iPhone app called Wingtags. So far, over 5000 sightings of these noisy parrots have…
News Shark behaviour affected by full moon …Perth. Sharks affected by moon The sharks were tagged near Palau, east of the Philippines, and followed for two years. During this time, scientists from UWA and the Australian Institute…
News Birds a twitter: social networkers better off …Lucy says. Over one winter, Lucy and her colleagues observed the winter social network of tit birds tagged with electronic trackers at two particular feeding sites in woodlands near Oxfordshire….
Adventure Top 8 wilderness camping spots in Australia …once at the island, camping tags must be displayed at your site. Camp sites are available at Nina Bay, Little Ramsay Bay, Banksia Bay, Zoe Bay, Sunken Reef Bay, Mulligan…
Wildlife Cockatoos causing trouble in Blue Mountains …forced more cockatoos to move east to look for food. But we really know very little about these birds and so that’s why we are we are conducting more research.”…