We spend our lives surrounded by hi-tech materials and chemicals that make our batteries, solar cells and mobile phones work. But developing new technologies requires time-consuming, expensive and even dangerous…
New online portal links Australia’s researchers: CASPeR
Griffith University has produced a major new online resource for Australia‘s researchers, the Compounds Australia Structure PoRtal (known as “CASPeR”) is an online portal providing access to the data of…
Deadly soil bug can reach the brain in a day
A deadly bacteria that can be picked up by a simple sniff can travel to the brain and spinal cord in just 24 hours, a new Griffith University and Bond…
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…
The search for new Parkinson’s disease drugs
Parkinson’s disease is a devastating and incurable condition that affects around 80,000 Australians and costs our country $10 billion annually. It results from the degeneration of specific cells in…
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…
First Peoples were truly first
Griffith University researchers have found evidence that demonstrates Aboriginal people were the first to inhabit Australia, as reported in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal this…
Media picture of urban consolidation focuses more on a good scare story than the facts
Neighbourhoods as “battlefields”, “sardine city”, traditional suburbs as “threatened species” and urban hubs as the domain of “latte-sipping yuppies”. These are examples of the dramatic and negative imagery Queensland newspapers…