Griffith University engineering students have been helping rebuild a cyclone-devastated area of Vanuatu as part of a program designed to embed in them in real world construction. Griffith’s fourth-year civil…
World-first fruit fly trap to capture massive agricultural gains
The ‘Holy Grail’ of fruit fly traps has been launched , dramatically boosting Australia’s potential for agricultural production in what is already a multibillion dollar industry. Griffith University and agricultural product…
Out in the heat: why poorer suburbs are more at risk in warming cities
Australian cities are getting hotter. The many reasons for this include urban densification policies, climate change and social trends such as bigger houses and apartment living, which leave less space…
A populist tighter ivory trade ban is not enough to save Africa’s elephants
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…