By Lucy Mercer-Mapstone At coffee with a friend recently we chatted about our latest smartphone app discovery while tweeting about […]
By Carrie Bengston Our TV screens showed us the devastation caused in the US by Hurricane Sandy but what natural […]
By Guy Micklethwait There’s no doubt, the world needs more rice. Over the next 40 years, cereal grain production must almost […]
Vermin celebration How do drugs make us ‘high’? The clever folk at the Genetic Science Learning Center at the University […]
Freshwater Sawfish: Apart from the visually obvious, the Freshwater Sawfish is a really interesting FFT subject. It is actually a […]
By Kim Pullen – Australian National Insect Collection To look at a Pink Underwing moth (Phyllodes imperialis) resting you would […]
‘An eclipse adventure in Far North Queensland’, by Robert Hollow I’ve just experienced a long-held desire to observe one of […]
By Kylie Williams Do you like your gadgets? Your car? Your stainless steel dishwasher? Do you recycle what you can […]
By Fiona Henderson With summer just around the corner, many of us will be shaking out our beach towels, grabbing […]
Our mathematician, Dr Aaron Thornton, was named a 2012 Victorian Young Tall Poppy last night, awarded for his research into […]
We’ve developed a sensor to detect undetonated explosives on the sea floor, based on a technology used to find mineral deposits […]
By Helen Sim Got your ticket to Cairns? Camera gear ready? No, me neither. But lots of people have, and […]
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