Research stories
Find out more about our staff and their research.
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...
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.”
18 Oct 2023
How did saltwater crocodiles snap up Yusuke Fukuda’s heart?
16 Aug 2023
Professor Alexander Maier wants us to change our mind about parasites.
24 May 2023
While Australia is the last continent to be invaded by the vorroa mite, it has an opportunity to be the first to eradicate it.
16 May 2023
Until recently we had very little idea when butterflies evolved, and hypotheses concerning their place of origin were largely educated guesses.
2 May 2023
What’s the science behind these ghosts?
12 Jan 2023
As campus takes a break, we have a look at some of the science which never stops – and the people who keep it running, every day of the year.
13 Dec 2022
Dr Tobias Hayashi studied a delicate little native orchid with a cool and clever adaptation to attract pollinators.
8 Dec 2022
Not content with the challenging conditions for crop production here on Earth, Associate Professor Caitlin Byrt is lending her expertise to an ambitious space...
19 Oct 2022
Helen Osmond has watched the ins and outs of one superb fairy-wren population for three decades.
27 May 2022
The raw material for evolution is much more abundant in wild animals than we previously believed, according to new research.