For many years, Melbourne has dined out on being recognised by The Economist as "the most liveable city in the world;" and is now second to Vienna. While this global recognition is a source of great pride and an excellent marketing tool – is this...

Earth observation is expanding rapidly as a technical field, and it's getting cheaper to use geospatial information and technology to monitor the health of our environment and manage threats to settlements, plantations, habitats and biodiversity. Professor Allison Kealy leads research in Geospatial Science at RMIT...

An Australian innovation for Australian conditions! Deployed across a regional network in Gippsland, they look like a small, dispersed army of mini-Daleks. These intelligent multi-sensors provide instant first responder notification, detailing the type of threat, location, images and live conditions to enable rapid investigation and...

Along with the production of antibodies and many other functions, our body's immune system deploys specialised T-cells, cellular soldiers that directly fight pathogens by either killing infected cells or coordinating the attack. Following a successful battle against infection, a pool of "memory T-cells" remains in...

During an infection, immune "T cells" (like some kinds of white blood cells) that recognise the infectious agent will be activated to respond – either killing infected cells or coordinating the attack. Following infection, a pool of memory T cells remains in the body to...

Shields up! The Artemis program will send the first woman and the next man to the South Pole of the Moon as soon as 2024. The conditions will be hostile to life.

With the exception of the Apollo astronauts, all astronauts have...

New spatial technologies – like remote sensing, global positioning systems, ground based sensors, monitoring and other ICT interventions – are set to revolutionise our understanding of our forests and improve our capacity to manage and sustain them. Join three proponents of these powerful new systems...

Ecosystems collapse and species loss is being documented across the planet, with profound existential ramifications. Habitat degradation and loss remains the key driver of biodiversity loss, but climate change and invasive species promise to compound the damages we have wrought.

To save...

Join Dr Rebecca McIntosh and Ross Holmberg from the Phillip Island Nature Parks team as they prepare to launch the annual SealSpotter Challenge, when citizen scientists around the globe jump online to count Australian fur seals and contribute to vital conservation research.