The Phasmid, or the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect, is slowly crawling back from total extinction. Find out more about the Phasmids story of survival and the new children's book immortalising its return from the brink of annihilation.
There's a world of agricultural biodiversity living under our feet that we often take for granted.
We attached tiny sensor backpacks to honey bees to track their movements and monitor population levels. Pretty amazing, right? The results are enough to make Ashley Madison blush.
Honey bee populations are collapsing around the world, their health and ability to pollinate crops is under serious threat. This is why we are leading an international alliance of researchers, beekeepers and farmers to place tiny sensors onto the backs of honey bees and assessing their overall population health.
Mosquitoes are responsible for much human suffering around the globe because of their ability to transmit nasty diseases. Could climate change cause these diseases to spread even further?
The key to improving hearing aids - and a range of other auditory technologies - may lie in the front legs of a daunting Kiwi native (and its reclusive Australian cousin).
The InsectScan 3D uses standard components and costs less than $8000 to create digital 3D models - and we can print them in 3D, too.
Ahh spiders. For a relatively small creature, they have the power to turn even the bravest among us into a quivering mess […]
A living dinosaur. A missing evolutionary link. A specimen unlike any seen before it. With such weighty words being thrown […]
Got a rainwater tank? Thinking of getting one? Well, you'll want to keep mozzies, sludge and fecal matter out of them - and here are the 5 tips for how.
From dragons to comets, and hot steam to bird guts, it's been a year full of sublime, and implausible, stories. Here's a look back at 2014 and our list of the top ten.
We're helping make your summer better from keeping mozzies at bay to serving up better food and wine.
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