Stories of Australian Science

Up to 30 per cent of the fuel needed for Australia’s road transport and the aviation industry could be generated through biofuels, creating tens of thousands of jobs and adding $5 billion to Australia’s economy. And one of the prime sources of biofuel, according to Southern Cross University’s Centre for Plant [...]

Thirty new languages in China have recently been described by Assoc. Prof. David Bradley and Dr Jamin Pelkey of La Trobe University and reported by the journal Science. Jamin described 18 new Phula languages based on work carried out from 2005 to 2006 in 41 mountain villages in Yunnan Province, Southwest [...]

Indigenous people value rivers in many ways. Rivers provide bush foods and medicines, they are part of a culturally significant landscape, and have the potential to sustain future water-related businesses and employment. So it’s important to know what impact changing river flow patterns and water allocations could have on Indigenous communities. [...]

Imagine a telescope so revolutionary that in one week it will gather more information than that contained in all the words spoken in human history. The Square Kilometre Array, or SKA, will be the world’s most powerful radio telescope and will dramatically increase mankind’s understanding of the universe. The infrastructure enabling this [...]