On This Day On this day: HMAS Sydney (II) mystery solved ON 16 MARCH 2008, 200km off the coast of Shark Bay in Western Australia, an international team of experts waited impatiently as a side-scan sonar searched for wreckage on the…
News Native frog develops natural resistance to deadly chytrid fungus Our new research, however, has identified an endangered frog species that seems to have developed a natural resistance to the disease, after having previously succumbed to it in prior decades:…
News The Australian Antarctic Division needs tradies Twenty-five jobs are on offer at Australia’s four Antarctic and sub-Antarctic research stations for the 2021/22 season. Australia’s Antarctic Program is seeking tradies keen on an icy change to keep…
News Prehistoric megalodon could swallow a great white shark whole, research shows In a new 3D modelling study published in Science Advances, we show that the giant extinct shark, Otodus megalodon, was a true globetrotting super-predator. It was capable of covering vast…
News Dolphin breath gives up genetic clues …dishes, which were attached to poles long enough to reach the dolphins as they swam alongside the research vessel. A whale of a research time The research was then perfected…
Science & Environment Solving the bogong moth mystery …animal migrations,” says Dr Eric Warrant, an Australian biology professor at Sweden’s University of Lund. After 10 years of research, he is close to solving the mystery of how the…
Science & Environment Third global bleaching event took its toll on WA’s super-corals …My past research has shown that these naturally extreme conditions increase the heat tolerance of Kimberley corals but that they are nevertheless not immune to bleaching when water temperatures are…
Wildlife Whales to insects: a dingo's breakfast on K'gari DINGOES ON QUEENSLAND’S popular K’gari (Fraser Island) consume one of the widest size ranges of prey in the animal kingdom, according to research published in Scientific Reports. Dingoes are a…
News Prime Minister's Science Prizes awarded …in Canberra. Professor John Shine, the executive director of the Garvan Institute for Medical Research, won the top honour, for his discovery of a gene sequence that led to cloned…
Science & Environment Grub's up! …Josh Evans in April 2014 from Central Australia on the blog of the Nordic Food Lab. All in the name of research, he travelled to Yuendumu, north of Alice Springs…