RMIT researchers call on Melburnians to plant the right plants and create the right homes for native pollinators.They say we’ll get better tomato crops, more flowers and boost urban biodiversity. As Melbourne’s gardens burst into life after a wet spring, native insects are out looking for flowers and pollen. City gardeners rely on bees, butterflies…
What can bees teach us about speed shopping? Does trading off speed for accuracy pay? Bumblebees have been shown to have very fine colour vision – which they can use to find up to 5,000 flowers a day.
Fresh Science is on hold for 2022. We will be back in 2023.
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Fresh Science is a national competition and training program helping early-career researchers find and share their stories of discovery.
We take young researchers with no media experience and help them become media spokespeople for their science, and reach stakeholders in government and industry.
Fresh Science gives finalists a taste of life in the limelight, with a day of media training, a day of training in stakeholder engagement, and a public event in their home state.
Alumni of the program include Professor Allan Duffy and Dr Niraj Lal.
Read some of the fresh science we discovered in 2021 here.
