Deserts
Snapped and trapped: flesh-eaters take over gardens
Julie Power They eat shrew poo and rats, they trap bees and cockroaches, they absorb tiny insects whole, but perversely have little taste for mosquitoes.
Archaeology and the national identity
Ron Cerabona Dr Mike Smith's colleagues wanted to mark his career with a festschrift - a collection of essays by academics published in his honour.
Another dust storm on the cards, but with a silver lining
Max Mason The return of the red haze. It may sound like a 1960s horror movie, but red dust storms such as those that engulfed Sydney and much of Australia's east coast in 2009, could be about to make a...
The last refuge
'No one is allowed to sleep until we find it.'' Ecologist Dr James Smith is half joking but the force of his voice suggests he is determined, even a bit desperate.
Science creates 'supersoldier' ants with ancient genes
Nightmarish "supersoldier" ants with huge heads and jaws have been created by activating ancient genes that trigger their development.
Plugging into algal power
Peter Spinks THEY are vanishingly small, quite unremarkable under a microscope and anything but exotic. Yet microalgae, found anywhere from oceans, lakes and swamps to soils, rocks and icy mountain tops, are the...
Historic month for wild weather in US
US government meteorologists say April was a historic month for wild weather in the US, and it was not just the killer tornado outbreak that set records.
