Blog archive: Science
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Message in a bottle
Scientists worldwide can access the Museum’s collections through specimen loans.
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The Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Aboriginal shellworkers of La Perouse
La Perouse Aboriginal shell artists Esme Timbey and Marylin Russel keep alive a contemporary craft.
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Seastars of a feather flock together
Feather stars are beautiful marine animals that may be under threat. A recent AMRI Fellowship study sheds new light on this enigmatic group.
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Learning Process: The Bow in Question
The double life of wooden bow habou-numa from Lake Kopiago.
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Learning Process: Stone tools in the Highlands
Researching stone technology in the villages of Papua New Guinea.
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Remembering Great Grandfather and Trustee
The legacy of Reuter Emerich Roth at the Australian Museum.
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‘Red Listing’ to help save Southeast Asia’s Amphibians
A first step in biodiversity conservation is determining which species are most threatened with extinction.
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Frogs in the trees
In making the transition from the swamp to the tree-tops, different groups of frogs have evolved in remarkably similar ways.
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Our Global Neighbours: Australia and Turkey at War
The profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
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Mimic fish benefit from imperfect impersonations
Animal mimicry can become ineffective if it is used too often, and these canny fish know it.
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Our Global Neighbours: Who owned the Shirase Sword?
Sydney University historian investigates.
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Our Global Neighbours: A Sword of the Country
Aboriginal culture in early colonial Sydney is documented in written and pictorial sources, but a few artefacts from this period exist.
