Drone monitoring helps dolphins
Australia’s beloved dolphin populations face growing pressures from environmental changes and human activity, increasing the need for reliable, accessible and non-invasive tools to monitor their health […]
Students
Taste of engineering at Flinders
Flinders University this week welcomed 14 high school students to the first Indigenous Australian Engineering School to be hosted in Adelaide. The IAES program (17 to […]
Think before you ink: Hidden risks in tattoos
One in four Australian adults have at least one tattoo, but new research suggests that what’s in the ink may pose greater risks than the size […]
Benefits of school phone bans
On the heels of wider acceptance of school phone bans and taking ‘digital breaks’, South Australian experts have produced more evidence of the potential benefits to […]
Fishing for better aquaculture solutions
Farmed fish are increasingly replacing wild fish to meet consumer demand in China, as well as Australia – and barramundi is a popular choice. Aquaculture research […]
Novel material in new bioplastic
Plastic pollution is a global crisis that no one country can solve alone – with microplastics found in soils, rivers, the air and even organs throughout […]
Tiny mite eats its mates
It’s survival of the fittest in nature, and an alien-looking ground mite demonstrates how the most promiscuous males fight and sometimes even cannibalise other males to […]
Teens enjoy fossil tour of discovery
In the eery, dark depths of an Australian cave, high school students are learning first-hand about thousands of years of incredible natural history. With help from […]
From the soil: Microbes on your mind
Flinders University experts are exploring evidence that microbes in the soil and the environments around us can affect human microbiota and the ‘gut-brain axis,’ potentially shaping […]