News Echidnas have sex while sleeping, study says …among the most common mammals in Australia, little has been known about the reproductive practices of short-beaked echidnas (Tachyglossus aculeatus). However, an Australian Geographic Society-sponsored research project, at the University…
News Speed of a lamb's bleat linked to survival …Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) and colleagues at the Sheep Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) collected records from 15,000 lambs, more than 6000 adult females and 284 sires from eight…
Destinations Climbing Southeast Asia's highest mountain …sometimes their kids tag along (just to rub it in). Another excuse to stop comes in the form of rest shelters, open-sided huts called pondoks. Each has a toilet, some…
News Victorians to get free electric car trial …seeing big cuts in transport, and the simple way of achieving big cuts in transport is to move to the new technologies,” he says. But with a price tag of…
News Scientists eavesdrop on fish chatter …protected. Vulnerability The study will extend previous research on mulloway and focus on other commercially important seafood species. These include snapper, black bream and the poorly understood dhufish. Miles adds…
News Convict sites get World Heritage listing …the Marshall Islands and the South Pacific nation of Kiribati – earned their first World Heritage tags. The full list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites can be found at: whc.unesco.org/en/list…
News Sydney's bats get the boot …research projects ever on this threatened species, contributing to conservation work to protect them. Tagging and radio tracking of the flying-foxes will provide essential information on their patterns of movement,…
News A celebration of Irish-Australian culture …Victoria was Irish at this time. He is still regarded as a folk hero in some quarters, and the NMA is hoping to display the rag-tag armour, fashioned from iron…
News Tough environment no barrier to platypus …researchers then took body measurements, weight and blood samples from the 28 platypuses that they caught. Measuring the size of the tails was a focal point of the research, said…
News Competition asks: What do engineers do? …vote for a weekly winner from now til 10 May. A clever cloud of popular tags generates recurring keywords, from Avatar to solar. Submissions are also searchable by topic. The…
