By Lucy Mercer-Mapstone At coffee with a friend recently we chatted about our latest smartphone app discovery while tweeting about […]
Work has started on what’s called ‘cable pulling’, where the wiring for the ship is threaded and pulled through the […]
By Carrie Bengston Our TV screens showed us the devastation caused in the US by Hurricane Sandy but what natural […]
Three years ago 10-year-old Clare Cameron won a national competition to name Australia’s new Marine National Facility (MNF) research vessel. […]
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 […]
Nearly three years ago a 10-year-old Queensland primary school student beat the rush of entries in a national competition, to […]
Don McKenzie, the Operations Manager for Australia’s Marine National Facility, is a bit of a romantic, he loves a good […]
Australia’s new Marine National Facility research vessel, Investigator will be capable of conducting science from the tropics to the Antarctic ice-edge, […]
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 […]
At the front of RV Investigator there is one retractable bow thruster, which is like a propeller on a stem. It […]
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