News Spiders customise webs based on diet DEPENDING ON THEIR nutrient needs, spiders can customise their webs to catch different types of prey, new research suggests. Spider webs are specialised tools for catching prey and each species…
Science & Environment Fixing the Hole in Our Sky …up Australia’s atmospheric CFC monitoring station at Cape Grim in Tasmania in 1976 and it was samples he collected there, at the Mawson research station in Antarctica, and elsewhere that…
News Fighting the skin disease killing Australia’s wombats After three years of research into the molecular biology and genetics of the wombat mite, the University of the Sunshine Coast-led collaboration has been awarded a New South Wales Government…
Science & Environment This scientist wants you to sunbathe in a storm water channel …you could just get the channel looking attractive!” This vision is at the heart of Kate’s research: how to improve storm water quality and additionally, how to make storm water…
Science & Environment Moonlight basking and queer courting: The secret lives of freshwater turtles …special issue of the journal Austral Ecology, 55 authors present the latest research on Australian freshwater turtles. Along with other biologists, we have contributed to a series of research papers…
News Ancient earthquakes point to modern dangers …North Island. The research was presented in September at the European Science Foundation Conference, held in Austria. Finding faults Using sonar to scan layers underneath sea floor, the scientists have…
News New genetic data reveals five distinct koala groups …the same as any other koala in Australia – grey fur, big button nose and the fuzziest of ears. While the koala is one species, new research reveals that there…
News Sharks are mistaking humans for food, study shows …vision. The research has the potential to change perceptions around sharks and offer new ways to prevent fatal shark bites. The team of scientists captured footage of a seal and…
Science & Environment Sleep: we need it and we still don't know why …important for memory consolidation, and the flip side, forgetting,” says Associate Professor Kurt Lushington, director of the Centre for Sleep Research at the University of South Australia. “You need to…
News Biodiversity hotspot in WA explained RESEARCH INTO THE birds and mammals that pollinate banksias and eucalypts in south-west Western Australia is challenging existing theories on the region’s enormous biodiversity. The Southwest Australia Ecoregion is a…