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28 Jun 2024
A simple and effective way to help endangered frogs survive the devastating Chytridiomycosis fungal disease - which has driven at least six amphibian species to extinction in Australia and threatens dozens more worldwide - has been developed by an international team of researchers.
3 Jun 2024
University of Melbourne researchers are helping villagers in Nepal predict when treacherous landslides are about to overwhelm their homes.
7 May 2024
Researchers at the Universities of Melbourne and Manchester have invented a breakthrough technique for manufacturing highly purified silicon that brings powerful quantum computers a big step closer.
4 Mar 2024
A new institute to support Pacific nations address their key global challenges of the 21st Century has been established in Melbourne.
28 Feb 2024
Ecologist Dr Joe Greet has received the Australian Academy of Science Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Scientist Award for his research developing a Traditional Owner-led billabong health assessment framework for Australian wetlands.
2 Feb 2024
Australia has joined other large mining nations such as Russia, China and Brazil at the top of a list of countries with the biggest areas of undocumented or undermeasured mine impacts, according to a satellite image analysis of the world’s mines.
31 Jan 2024
Australia’s precious wildlife biodiversity will be preserved and species safeguarded against extinction thanks to a new ‘living biobank’ being developed by the University of Melbourne and Museums Victoria Research Institute.
2 Dec 2023
The University of Melbourne and the Italian Space Agency have announced the successful launch of SpIRIT, a landmark nanosatellite mission supported by the Australian Space Agency.
21 Nov 2023
The Critically Endangered Uromys vika giant rat (U. vika) – one of the world’s rarest rodents – has been captured by camera trap images for the first time by researchers from the University of Melbourne, Solomon Islands National University, and Zaira Village, Vangunu.
9 Nov 2023
The University of Melbourne has launched the Melbourne Biodiversity Institute (MBI), a collective of researchers, innovators, and interdisciplinary problem-solvers dedicated to addressing the global challenge of biodiversity loss.
2 Nov 2023
Adult fragments of the coral species Galaxea fascicularsis can better tolerate bleaching and recover faster when treated with heat-evolved cells of algae, called symbionts, new research from the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and the University of Melbourne has indicated.
13 Oct 2023
An international consortium of experts, led by the University of Melbourne’s Dean of Science Professor Moira O’Bryan, is calling on governments and health systems to acknowledge that male infertility is a common and serious medical condition that may be increasing worldwide, and has provided a first-time roadmap for urgent, global action.
9 Oct 2023
A satellite mission led by the University of Melbourne and supported by the Australian Space Agency is beginning its journey to orbit after it passed tests to verify its performance and ensure it can stand the harsh environment of space.
14 Aug 2023
A University of Melbourne First Nations student has been selected for a NASA internship by the National Indigenous Space Academy (NISA).
14 Aug 2023
Palawa Aboriginal stories from Tasmania recalling the creation of Bass Strait 12,000 years ago and the presence of a bright southern star may be among the oldest recorded stories in the world, according to research published today in the Journal of Archaeological Science.
13 Jul 2023
The impact of air pollution on insect health and reproduction is greater than previously understood and could be contributing to global declines in insect populations, including in remote wilderness areas, new research shows.
12 Jul 2023
Australia will need to speed up and broaden its decarbonisation efforts to achieve net zero by 2050, according to the final report of the Net Zero Australia project, How to make net zero happen. The report builds on Net Zero Australia’s modelling of decarbonisation pathways, released in April 2023.
18 May 2023
New research, published in Sciences Advances, has discovered a Chlamydia-like bacteria in corals of the Great Barrier Reef that could help scientists understand the coral microbiome and its potential impact on coral reef health.
9 May 2023
Professor Tim Fletcher from the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Science has been awarded more than $3.5 million from an Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Industry Fellowship to tackle the urgent challenges faced by the urban water industry.
19 Apr 2023
Australia will need to triple the National Electricity Market’s power capacity by 2030 to be on track for net zero by 2050 – requiring a rapid rollout of wind and solar power, transmission, storage, electric vehicles, and heat pumps as we replace our coal fleet, new research shows.