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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

4 Dec 2020 | 4 - 5pm

Individuals can benefit by varying their investment in offspring. The optimal amount of investment may vary in relation to both climatic conditions and social conditions (such as the number of carers for the offspring).

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27 Nov 2020 | 4:30 - 5pm

Why do organisms look the way they do? Why do they live where they do? Wy are some groups more diverse than others? These basic questions are often addressed at different scales using a particular set of methods.

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Logo for the International Ion Channel Aquaporin Workshop, featuring the acronym "iCAQP" in stylized letters and a graphic of colorful spheres arranged around a cross.
23 Nov 2020 | 3pm

Workshop online webinar over 4 days:
Monday 2nd November 4-6pm
Tuesday 10th November 4-6pm
Monday 16th November 4-7pm
Monday 23rd November 3-7p

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Logo for the International Ion Channel Aquaporin Workshop, featuring the acronym "iCAQP" in stylized letters and a graphic of colorful spheres arranged around a cross.
16 Nov 2020 | 4pm

Workshop online webinar over 4 days:
Monday 2nd November 4-6pm
Tuesday 10th November 4-6pm
Monday 16th November 4-7pm
Monday 23rd November 3-7p

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A black and white patterned longhorn beetle on a green leaf.
13 Nov 2020 | 4 - 5pm

The taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships of longhorn beetles have been debated for decades, with neither morphological nor molecular data reaching a consistent solution. 

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