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10 Jan 2022
Australia set to blast off on its first moon mission
Australia’s unique geography and world-leading expertise in robotics technology in harsh and remote climates make it an ideal candidate to put a rover on the moon.
21 Dec 2021
The legend of Zorro and the masked owls
From tracking down hard-to-find owls to protecting bats, there’s nothing Zorro the detection dog can’t do.
2 Nov 2021
Zooming in on legumes offers hope for nitrogen pollution crisis
While Angus Rae focuses intently on a captivating microscopic world, he is actually working towards a solution for an environmental catastrophe occurring on a global scale.
13 Sep 2021
Move over magpies: are cuckoos the meanest bird?
Since it’s Bad Bird Season, we ask cuckoo apologist - sorry, cuckoo expert - Professor Naomi Langmore to explain how it could possibly be that the cuckoo doesn’t mean to be mean, when it sure looks like it does.
23 Aug 2021
Get up close and personal with a local tree this lockdown
PhD student Cara Parsons is calling for citizen scientists to collect data on mature eucalypts as part of her research into the dangers of falling branches.
13 Aug 2021
Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how wonderfully artificial you are
Dr Noelia Martinez Rey creates artificial stars in space using lasers to correct for the twinkling effect of atmospheric turbulence. “When you see a star twinkle, that twinkle is created by turbulence in our atmosphere,” she explains.
5 Aug 2021
World-first look at earliest moments of supernova explosion
In a world-first, astronomers at The Australian National University (ANU), working with NASA and an international team of researchers, have captured the first moments of a supernova - the explosive death of stars.
13 Jul 2021
‘Environmental accounting’ could revolutionise nature conservation, but Australia has squandered its potential
Let’s say a new irrigation scheme is proposed and all the land it’ll take up needs to be cleared — trees felled, soil upturned, and habitats destroyed. Water will also have to be allocated. Would the economic gain of the scheme outweigh the damage to the environment?
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