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Light pollution has 'wiped clean' the night sky in many Northern Hemisphere cities Starlight being eroded, say astronomers

Monday, 17 August 2009
The public's "right to starlight" is steadily being eroded by urban illumination that is the bane of astronomers everywhere, says the International Astronomical Union.

Subjects: environment, astronomy-space, energy, stars Locations: sydney-2000, brazil

By studying a well-preserved skeleton of a pterosaur, researchers have discovered that the pterosaur's wings, claws and hair are unlike any creature found on Earth today Pterosaur features defy comparison

Wednesday, 5 August 2009
A well-preserved pterosaur with soft tissues reveals this flying reptile had hair, claws and wings that were unlike anything seen on today's living animals, suggests a new paper.

Subjects: dinosaurs, fossils, palaeontology Locations: brazil

Returning Pluto to planet status could have a detrimental effect on astronomy education, says one astronomer Pluto likely to remain a dwarf planet

Friday, 31 July 2009
The debate surrounding the demoted planet Pluto is set to reignite as astronomers meet next week in Brazil.

Subjects: astronomy-space, planets-and-asteroids, spacecraft Locations: sydney-2000, brazil, monash-university-3800

Half the planet's climate-warming emissions come from less than a billion of its wealthiest people, say the researchers New strategy to break climate impasse?

Tuesday, 7 July 2009Article has video
The fairest way to fight climate change is to base a country's emission targets on the number of wealthy individuals it has, argues an international team, but some Australian experts are not so sure.

Subjects: climate-change, government-and-politics Locations: australia, brazil, china, india, italy, korea-republic-of, singapore, ukraine, united-states

Mountain ash can live for at least 350 years - the person in the bottom right gives a sense of scale Australian forests lock up most carbon

Tuesday, 16 June 2009Article has audio
Mountain ash forests in Australia are the best in the world at locking up carbon, a new study has found.

Subjects: rain-forests-and-forest, forestry, greenhouse-gas Locations: vic, brazil, chile, new-zealand, united-states

Researchers found ultra fine-grained crystals of magnetic minerals in ant antennae Ant antennae carry internal GPS

Thursday, 21 May 2009
Minuscule magnets found in ant antennae could help to explain why these insects seem to always know where they are going, according to researchers.

Subjects: animal-behaviour, fish, birds, invertebrates-insects-and-arachnids Locations: brazil, germany

Despite comprising more than 90% of the universe, the link between dark energy and dark matter has unknown Link between universe's dark sides exposed

Thursday, 2 April 2009
Astronomers believe they may have found a link between two mysterious phenomena that make up the universe - dark matter and dark energy.

Subjects: astronomy-space, the-universe, galaxies Locations: the-university-of-sydney-2006, brazil, china

The Amazon rainforest absorbs nearly two billion tonnes of carbon dioxide in a typical year Amazon drought reduces carbon sinks

Friday, 6 March 2009
Drought is killing off trees in Brazil's fragile Amazon rainforest and depleting the region's carbon reservoirs - an ecological double-whammy with devastating implications, according to a new study.

Subjects: drought, environment, climate-change Locations: brazil

Researchers were able to trick people into thinking they were eating fresh potato chips by playing loud, crunching sounds Cola, stale chip research win Ig Nobels

Friday, 3 October 2008
A researcher who determined that Coke explodes sperm, and scientists who discovered that people will happily eat stale chips if they crunch loudly, are some of the winners at this year's Ig Nobel prizes.

Subjects: awards, weird-and-wonderful, ignobelprize Locations: australia, brazil, italy, mexico, switzerland, united-kingdom, united-states

Not so threatened: a census finds western lowland gorilla numbers are increasing  Gorilla 'mother lode' found in Congo

Tuesday, 5 August 2008
Researchers have found 125,000 western lowland gorillas living in the north of the Republic of Congo, almost doubling the known number of the endangered species.

Subjects: endangered-and-protected-species, animals, mammals, zoos, agreements-and-treaties Locations: brazil, congo, madagascar, rwanda, uganda, scotland


Friday, 4 July 2008


Mountains that grow this fast might affect climate and evolution, says researchers Mountains could have growth spurts

Friday, 6 June 2008
The Andes mountains may have growth spurts, doubling their height in as little as 2 million to 4 million years, say US researchers.

Subjects: earthquake, earth-sciences, geology Locations: argentina, bolivia, brazil, chile, ecuador, peru, united-states

This legless lizard of the genus Bachia is about 15-20 centimetres long and is related to Australian and European species Legless lizard slithers across Brazil

Wednesday, 30 April 2008Article has photo slideshow
Scientists have discovered a legless lizard, a toad and a dwarf woodpecker among 14 species believed to be new to science in central Brazil, a wildlife conservation group says.

Subjects: conservation, amphibians, reptiles Locations: brazil


Monday, 21 April 2008


A new virus, carried by rodents, can cause bleeding from the nose, mouth and gums New virus causes deadly bleeding

Monday, 21 April 2008
Scientists have identified a new virus that causes bleeding and shock and killed at least one man in a remote area of Bolivia.

Subjects: infectious-diseases-other, microbiology Locations: bolivia, brazil, paraguay, peru, united-states

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