Connecting with tomorrow’s leaders on climate change and nature
20 February 2015
Through a special event at Macquarie University’s Orientation Week, The Wilderness Society (TWS) will reach out to young people by …
Science & nature
Biomarker discovery offers clearer prognosis for bowel and rectal cancer patients
19 February 2015
For the first time, a biomarker discovered by Macquarie University and Concord Repatriation General Hospital researchers will allow clinicians to …
Why stressed young bees’ early start to foraging can lead to colony collapse
10 February 2015
An international team of scientists, including Macquarie University’s Dr Andrew Barron and Queen Mary University of London’s Dr Clint Perry, …
Macquarie University strengthens ties with India
23 January 2015
Visiting representatives from Macquarie University (based in Sydney, Australia) have recently launched $1 million in scholarships for Indian students and …
Early birds: how climate change is shifting time for animals and plants
7 January 2015
By Marie Keatley, University of Melbourne; Lynda Chambers, Australian Bureau of Meteorology, and Paul Beggs, Macquarie University Every Spring, the …
Fatal attraction: deceptive female mantids skip sex for dinner
17 December 2014
New research into the sexual cannibalism of praying mantids has revealed that starving females deceptively signal to males in order …
I like bright butts – how male mantids locate females
8 December 2014
Praying mantids are masters of camouflage, blending in with the background vegetation, at least to human eyes. Camouflage can be …
Indigenous astronomy project gives back to the Lightning Ridge community
5 December 2014
After completing a research project into the sky knowledge of the Kamilaroi and Euahlayi peoples of North Western New South …
FIRST® Robotics Competition launches Australia Regional event with Macquarie University
3 December 2014
FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), an international not-for-profit K-12 organisation founded by inventor Dean Kamen to inspire young people’s …
A (re)Generation of young people at the World Parks Congress
26 November 2014
When Sydney hosted the World Parks Congress, a once-in-a-decade international event, at Sydney Olympic Park last week, it was a …
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