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News

Wednesday, 05 Jun 2024

Australia’s ski industry is at risk of major disruptions and shorter seasons if the current level of climate pollution continues, according to new modelling from Protect Our Winters Australia (POW) and The Australian National University (ANU).

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Friday, 31 May 2024

In new research published in Science, biologists show how coevolution drives the creation of new species of cuckoos.

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Wednesday, 29 May 2024

Working on the Clever Cockie Project, Dr Julia Penndorf is tracking all the odd but fascinating behaviours that Sydney and Canberra cockatoos get up to in urban environments.

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A bee
Tuesday, 27 Feb 2024

We have a small and vanishing window to collect bees before the inevitable rapid spread of the varroa mites, and the mass die-offs, occur.

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Friday, 23 Feb 2024

Australia can lay claim to two new native mammal species, discovered as part of collaborative new research published in the journal Molecular Ecology.

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Tuesday, 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.”

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Events

13 Oct 2022 | 1pm

Organisms display a wide variety of social behaviours ranging from nesting aggregations to parental care to the amazingly complex societies found in eusocial insects such as honeybees, termites and ants.

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2 Sep 2022 | 11am

Extra-intestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) strains are responsible for the majority of extra-intestinal infections in humans, including urinary tract infections, neonatal meningitis, and bacteraemia.

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31 Aug 2022 | 4pm

Cycads are subtropical and tropical palm-like gymnosperms, commonly known as “living fossils” as they arose in the late Paleozoic and were much more diverse and dominant during the Mesozoic.

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26 Aug 2022 | 4pm

Males compete against each other for female attention, for access to mating opportunities, and the sperm of multiple males can compete to fertilise a female’s eggs.

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A smiling woman in a red t-shirt and a black hat holding a small rock in a desert setting.
25 Aug 2022 | 1pm

Some of the most spectacular visual effects in the animal kingdom are those that change with movement. For example, brilliant iridescent feathers that shift colour with viewing angle, or reflective, highly glossy beetles that look like little mirrors.

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