Blog archive:
November 2014

Suburban landscapes provide more consistent floral nectar than native bushland and support a greater abundance of large nectar-feeding birds

Learning as discovery and adventure.

An extinct volcano in NSW is home to an endangered community of land snails, including a bright scarlet slug.

A week of learning and discovery.

The Australian Museum joined Sydney's largest BioBlitz with a display at Basecamp and running surveys.

Steve and Sally examining Anna's nightlighting catch.

2014 has been all about beacons...

Chalmers by name and charming by nature

From an ancient pre-Columbian graveyard to the Captain Cook Collection.

The immense task of digitising our collections raises many challenges for our digitisation and transcription team, the DigiVols.

Textiles of Southeast Asia are amongst the richest in diversity and design in the world.

“Anything in the pots?” is a question I am frequently asked by crew of the RV Braveheart and my fellow scientists as we document samples.

Apart from use in the seafood industry baited traps (or pots) are also a great way to collect marine specimens for scientfic study.

Apart from use in the seafood industry baited traps (or pots) are also a great way to collect marine specimens for scientific study.

The 25th anniversary of the Eureka Prizes saw plenty of entries, news stories and outstanding Australian science rewarded.