Professor Jean-Marc Hero is a vertebrate ecologist with research expertise in conservation biology of amphibians, biodiversity assessment and monitoring, and conservation physiology. He is Deputy Director of Griffith University’s Environmental…
Move over, McMansions – the tiny house movement is here
A small group of people are gathered around a campfire in a Victorian State Forest. Members of the Tiny Houses Australia community, they’re attending a Spring Camp to talk about how to…
Who we should recognise as First Australians in the constitution
Liberal Democrat Senator David Leyonhjelm recently said Australia should not recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the First Australians in legislation because the evidence was only “conjecture”. He raised his…
Gaming technology boosts mangrove research
Motion sensing technology best known in computer games is vastly improving Queensland scientists’ ability to quantify habitat complexity in mangroves. The Kinect line of devices developed by Microsoft for Xbox consoles and…
Noble journey from refugee to Nobel contender
From a Vietnamese refugee huddled with more than 400 frightened others as a flimsy craft took them across the South China Sea, to a potential Nobel Prize laureate for Chemistry,…
Gerotopias: the ‘good life’ for later life
The Federal Government’s push to move the retirement age to 70 will impact on the dreams and realities of many Baby Boomers (those people born between 1946 and 1964). This…
Improving older people’s health with Dr Google
With more health information going online every day, it has never been easier to proactively manage our health. The problem is, the people who would benefit the most seem to be using…
Image-conscious biology
Professor Vicky Avery from the Eskitis Institute discusses the beauty of her work. Transcript: “So the focus of my laboratory is primarily drug discovery both basic and applied research and the disease areas…
Why people deny the obvious?
“Despite the fact that we live in an ‘information age’, and are finding out more and more about the universe, some people seem determined to reject knowledge. For example, in…
Down syndrome theory on Hobbit species doesn’t hold to scrutiny
Claims that bones found in an Indonesian cave are not the remains of a new species of extinct hominin but more likely modern humans suffering from a chromosomal disorder have…