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Behind the book: scientists telling stories for kids

Armed with tales of walking on water, smelling fingerprints and surviving against the odds, meet the scientists who are writing children’s books.

Environment

10 things you need to know about collections

First compiled by explorers and natural historians, now ecologists and other researchers, collections are catalogues for the phenomenal diversity of life on Earth, which—in a world of receding ecosystems—are only growing more important as records and reservoirs of understanding.

Keeping devi-ANTS away from Lord Howe Island

We’ve eradicated an exotic invasive ant species off a world heritage listed island.

Farming

We asked five experts: are light dairy products better?

Pen to pixel, 1983–2018 in scientific illustration

Just like the ever-forking numbers of insect species branching off and evolving, so too, do the techniques of the art world ramify in their attempt to capture the beauty of the natural world.

Data61

Protecting the ‘right to be forgotten’ in the age of blockchain

Blockchain data is unchangeable, which is a problem when privacy laws require companies to delete data once it’s served its purpose.

Environment

fishIDER, a new tool to improve fisheries management in Indonesia

Accurate species identification is a fundamental requirement for assessing fisheries stocks. fishIDER aims to improve the identification skills of fisheries staff.

Space

The search for the source of a mysterious fast radio burst comes relatively close to home

Astronomers think they've identified which galaxy was the source of a blast radio energy, over in a fraction of a second. And it's much closer to us than the others detected, so far.

Environment

Spooky spiders trick or treat in a street near you

Instead of fake spider pranks this Halloween, why not arm yourself with some facts about hair-raising arachnids?

No one can hear you scream in here

This Halloween we thought we’d test run our new anechoic chamber on the spine chilling screams from our favourite horror movies…

Space

Dying, not waving: nearby dwarf galaxy running out of gas

Even though it’s on an astronomical timeline, a close intergalactic neighbour of ours known as the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is slowly dying.

Minerals

How a mob of stray cattle started a gold rush in the Pilbara

An accidental prospector has sparked a gold rush after making an extraordinary gold discovery while mustering cattle in a helicopter.