The sex lives of constipated scorpions, cute ducklings with an innate sense of physics, and a life-size rubber moose may not appear to have much in common, but they all inspired the winners of this year's Ig Nobels, the prize for comical scientific achievement.
A team of scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) has taken out one of the country’s top science prizes for developing a powerful tool that helps farmers predict how what they do on their farms could impact different bird species.
Physicists at The ANU have developed tiny translucent slides capable of producing two very different images depending on the direction in which light travels through them.
DNA analysis of ancient human remains has shed new light on an “explosion” of intermixing cultures and genetics in an island region north of Australia known as Wallacea – an imprint that is still detectable in East Indonesians today.
The study,...
