The national festival that reaches nearly 2 million people through thousands of events is back from 12 to 20 August. Entertainment, business, environment, food and wine, Indigenous media, the arts, …
What is your favourite animal sound? Cast your vote in our national poll
Koo-koo-kaa-kaa, crawk, howl… nationwide project to proclaim Australia’s favourite call of the wild. Media contacts: Laura Boland, laura@scienceinpublic.com.au or 0408 166 426; or Tanya Ha, …
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Bin chickens; platypus threat; bilby poo; isolated koalas; sex changing fish
Thursday at the Genetics Congress More on all these stories below. …
A prize for nonsense and quality control
mRNA ‘quality control’ pioneers Allan Jacobson and Lynne Maquat receive US$500,000 Gruber Genetics Prize in Melbourne Every plant, every animal, every human depends on mRNA to accurately …
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Are bin chickens spreading Japanese encephalitis?
Are bin chickens spreading deadly diseases? Anjana Karawita and his colleagues at CSIRO’s Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness in Geelong are investigating the role of Australian ibis in …
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$442 billion economic loss by 2100: the economic impact of sea level rise and storm surge on Victoria revealed
By 2100, the impacts of sea level rise and storm surge are predicted to result in a $442 billion economic loss according to a study led by the University of Melbourne and commissioned by the Victorian …