by Virginia Tressider | May 5, 2021 | Environment, Science
Over the last three years, Associate Professor Michelle Power from Macquarie University has been asking everyday citizens to help save our native wildlife by collecting samples across the country. Poo samples, that is. Citizen scientists have been instrumental in...
by Virginia Tressider | Feb 10, 2021 | Agriculture, Technology
A new designer fruit fly paves the way for scientists to replace disease-carrying mosquitoes with harmless, genetically modified versions. Normally, the news of a new species of fruit fly would be interesting only for entomologists. But a new species recently...