A disproportionate amount of the agenda at The 17th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on the Trade of Endangered Species (CITES) was dominated by African elephants and the…
Major breakthrough in system fault detector
New research has discovered a way to detect failures in critical networked systems before they risk public safety and huge financial loss. Griffith School of Engineering Associate Professor Fuwen Yang…
Billions invested in Australia’s water reform – but is the journey over?
In the past 12 years, Australian governments have invested more than $13 billion in water reforms designed to tackle increasing water demands, ageing water infrastructure, inefficient water use and uncertain…
DNA reveals a new history of the First Australians
Understanding the history of Aboriginal Australians, their origins and how their population changed over some 50,000-plus years has always been an enormous challenge. Many Aboriginal people have their own origin…
EVENT: The Genomic History of Aboriginal Australia
On 6 October a public lecture and discussion panel was given at the Ship Inn in Brisbane with a selection of the authors of the recently published Nature paper, ‘The…
The world’s carbon stores are going up in smoke with vanishing wilderness
The Earth’s last intact wilderness areas are shrinking dramatically. In a recently published paper we showed that the world has lost 3.3 million square kilometres of wilderness (around 10% of…
‘Open science’ paves new pathway to develop malaria drugs
Malaria remains one of the world’s leading causes of mortality in developing countries. Last year alone, it killed more than 400,000 people, mostly young children. This week in ACS Central…
Plastic waste reverse engineered into clean fuel
Engineering PhD candidate Songpol Boonsawat is hoping to revolutionise the way plastic is recycled by converting it into fuel that is cleaner and more energy efficient than petrol or diesel….
What we have in common with corals and their unexplored microbial world
Ever had a gut feeling that you have something in common with a coral reef? Well, you do. Both humans and corals rely on microorganisms to function normally. Across all…
Tasmanian devils evolving rapidly to fight cancer
For the past 20 years, an infectious cancer has been killing wild Tasmanian devils, creating a massive challenge for conservationists. But new research, published today in Nature Communications, suggests that…