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…
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…
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…
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…
Planting the seeds of innovation; native plants gardening app
Helping gardeners choose the best local plants to beautiful their home and beat the spread of weeds is the subject of an app being developed by Griffith University and Gold…
Waterproofing technology improves solar cell efficiency
Researcher from the Centre for Clean Environment and Energy have developed a molecular waterproofing technique to improve the humidity tolerance of new solar cell technology. The cells, based on a compound…
Natural born killers: is warfare in our bones?
Skeletal remains of a group of hunter-gatherers massacred around 10,000 years ago are raising questions about humankind’s propensity for warfare. The fossilised bones of the Stone Age victims were unearthed…
Changing our thinking on early human migrations
Stone tools discovered on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and dating to at least 118,000 years ago suggest early humans colonised the island much earlier than previously thought. Professor Rainer…
How Universities fit into the Paris Climate Agreement
A landmark agreement to cut the world’s reliance on fossil fuels and thus slow the pace of global warming presents an important opportunity for universities, says Griffith University’s Professor Brendan…
Whale of a lab
How does Antarctica, the coldest driest and most remote continent on earth come to be polluted industrial chemicals and pesticides likes DDT, PCBs or dioxins, some of which were already…