If carbon is added to paddocks where cows urinate it can reduce the runoff of nitrogen into waterways meaning more nutrients for pasture growth and cleaner creeks and rivers. This…
Can you teach a koala new tricks?
Griffith University researchers have found that koalas are more clever than they thought them to be in a world-first study that tracked the Australian animal more comprehensively than ever before…
The last 100,000 years of human evolution
How did we evolve? We’ve all heard of Neanderthals but how many people know that modern humans lived with two other kinds of humans 100,000 years ago? Internationally renowned palaeoanthropologist…
Research leads to Great Barrier Reef rescue purchase
Leading geomorphologist Dr Andrew Brooks says the Queensland Government’s plan to rehabilitate grazing land to improve water quality of the Great Barrier Reef is based on “good science”. The State Government…
PUBLIC EVENT: THE LAST 100,000 YEARS OF HUMAN EVOLUTION: A PUBLIC LECTURE WITH PROFESSOR CHRIS STRINGER
Griffith University’s Research Centre for Human Evolution is proud to present: THE LAST 100,000 YEARS OF HUMAN EVOLUTION: AN EVENING WITH PROFESSOR CHRIS STRINGER World-renowned paleoanthropologist Professor Chris Stringer will discuss the…
A 700,000-year-old fossil find shows the Hobbits’ ancestors were even smaller
It was back in October 2004 when archaeologists first unveiled the partial skeleton of a tiny, small-brained hominin previously unknown to science, now known as Homo floresiensis. These “Hobbit”-like creatures…
Farmer ‘nitrogen market’ could reduce runoff impact on Great Barrier Reef
A team of economists and scientists led by Dr Jim Smart from the Australian Rivers Institute have found a ‘nitrogen trading scheme’ amongst cane farmers could help protect the Great Barrier…
A One-Stop Shop for Riparian Vegetation Management
The vegetation that grows alongside creeks and rivers, known as the riparian–zone, is one of our most valuable ecosystems. Dr Samantha Capon from Griffith University’s Australian Rivers Institute (ARI) has…
The Raymond Dart Lecture with Professor Bernard Wood: ORIGINS
‘Origins’ research in palaeoanthropology mainly focuses on three origins problems. The origin of our own lineage, the origin of our own genus, Homo, and the origin of our own species, Homo sapiens. In…
High Performance Renewable Batteries from 16th Century Chinese medicine
Inspired by 16th century Chinese medicine, Professor Eddie Zhang and his team from the Centre for Clean Environment and Energy have turned to nature for solutions to improve the performance of…