Deadly spider dubbed ‘Big Boy’
An international team of scientists has revised the classification of Australia’s most famous spider, the Sydney funnel-web. With a bite more deadly to humans than that […]
ARC funding for new land and social models
Grand visions for broad social reform and ecosystem research efforts will get underway in 2025, with timely funding from the Australian Research Council Linkage Projects scheme. […]
Unusual bee-haviour among natives
Australian native bees have evolved complex social structures and foraging behaviours that help biologists answer longstanding questions, such as the origins of social behaviour and the […]
Repairing nature with DNA – and drones
The monumental global task to restore degraded ecosystems will need to include sophisticated technologies such as environmental DNA monitoring to understand and support the recovery of […]
Little wasp causes quite a buzz
As well as an interest in all insects, Flinders biological sciences PhD Ben Parslow has a fascination for wasps. The focus of his doctorate research on […]
Refine teaching to improve scientific literacy
Biologist Karen Burke Da Silva is on a quest to increase Australia’s levels of scientific literacy.