How bees shop
Posted in: 2003, VicWhat 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.
zoology
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Saving orang-utans
Posted in: 2001, WAKristen Warren from Murdoch University in WA is working to save Indonesia’s orang-utans. Many captive orang-utans couldn’t be released into the wild because they appeared to be carrying a human hepatitis B virus. Kristen showed the virus is a new, orang-utan virus – a discovery essential to conservation of dwindling wild populations.
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What Females Want: Just what do fish find sexy?
Posted in: 2001, NSWScientists agree: some people are universally gorgeous. Studies in evolutionary biology show that few things are more advantageous to success than being attractive, since good looking individuals leave more offspring than their unattractive contemporaries.
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Cunning crustaceans beat ozone hole
Posted in: 2000, TasTasmanian researchers have found that krill, the small ocean crustaceans important for feeding the rest of the ocean’s animals, are able to protect themselves from the harmful ultra-violet light in the sun’s rays through a combination of diet and exercise.
Fresh Science
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.