Collaborate Disseminate
Geologists have pieced together an uncertain part of Earth’s ancient history. A team in Australia has found new evidence that suggests the cycle of supercontinents forming and breaking up only started about two billion years ago.Continue ReadingCategor… Continue reading Paleomagnetism suggests supercontinent cycle began two billion years ago
Only about five percent of the content of the universe is made up of regular (or baryonic) matter – and we still don’t know where most of that is. Now, an international team of astronomers has developed a creative new method to detect this missing matt… Continue reading One mystery solves another: Fast radio bursts detect missing matter
Forget space – the oceans are Earth’s final frontier. Even after centuries of exploration we’re still only just scratching the surface of what lives down there. The latest case in point is a diving expedition off the coast of Western Australia, which h… Continue reading Deep sea expedition uncovers 30 new species, plus longest-known animal
A recent study led by scientists from Australia’s New Curtin University shows that the world’s smallest type of killer whale has a surprisingly complex musical repertoire. Recordings of the Ross Sea killer whales that live in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica,… Continue reading The smallest killer whale has a large musical repertoire
Shiny, pretty and useful in electronics, gold has been prized by humans for millennia, but we’re not the only ones out there prospecting. Scientists from Australia’s CSIRO have now found a fungus species that mines for gold and even decorates… Continue reading Gold-mining fungi could guide human prospectors