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16 Jan 2024
“We just need to educate people and build awareness of spiders, to show that they’re not actually the bad guys we want them to be.”
2 May 2023
What’s the science behind these ghosts?
21 Apr 2021
One of the illustrious founder members of RSBS passed away on 11 April 2021. Jeremy David Pickett-Heaps FAA, FRS worked in the (then) Department of...
12 Aug 2020
Researchers have found a way to help one of Australia’s rarest birds ‘self-fumigate’ their nests, to protect their young from parasites.
15 Jan 2020
As Australia's weather heats up, it could have serious consequences for some of our country's most iconic animals. The research shows marsupials like...
15 Jan 2020
Australia’s current bushfire crisis could wipe out some of our rarer insect species, according to a group of experts.
7 Nov 2019
Red deer on a Scottish island are providing scientists with some of the first evidence that wild animals are evolving to give birth earlier in the year as the...
13 Dec 2018
Superstars of STEM is an initiative from Science & Technology Australia, that aims to increase the visibility of women in STEM and to challenge society...
1 May 2018
Dan Rosauer is fascinated by the incredibly uneven spatial distribution of biological diversity at all levels, particularly centres of phylogenetic endemism.
26 Apr 2018
Researchers from ANU have developed a seed-collection strategy to help make trees or even food crops more resilient to future climate change.
16 Jan 2018
Angela McGaughran is primarily interested in combining genomic and ecological approaches to examine evolutionary processes in natural populations.
13 Jul 2017
Due to a continued growth in commitments, Justin Borevitz has stepped aside from the formal directorship of the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) ANU...