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Shark killers extraordinaire, orcas Port and Starboard.

Two killer whales are hunting down great white sharks, Hannibal Lecter style

Forget Free Willy, this is Silence of the Lambs. Shark experts are trying to figure out how and why these orcas are dispatching one of the ocean’s fiercest predators.

  • Jonathan Edwards

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Did the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation really invent Wi-Fi?

Who really ‘invented Wi-Fi’, and the problem of Australian science innovation

The story of how CSIRO came to lay claim to inventing Wi-Fi deserves scrutiny as the Trump administration threatens to withdraw scientific funding.

  • Liam Mannix
Former ANU vice-chancellor Professor Brian Schmidt.

‘Sugar-daddy’ Trump comes for CSIRO on scientific research funding

The Trump administration is demanding Australian government researchers answer a diversity, gender and climate survey to guarantee funding as experts warn we’ve become overly reliant on the United States.

  • Liam Mannix and Hannah Kennelly
Fish kill in Ballina waterways in the weeks after Cyclone Alfred.

Mass fish kill chokes waterways in Byron region

The rivers of the NSW North Coast are clogged with thousands of suffocating fish, prawns, eels, and crabs.

  • Angus Dalton

Gold coins, diamonds, old champagne: Who gets to keep shipwreck treasure?

There are 8000 shipwrecks off Australia alone, many more still to be found. Yet stunning discoveries still happen. What does it take to find these ghostly vessels?

  • Angus Holland
Gilmour Space’s rocket stands on its launchpad.

Failure to launch: The huge rocket ‘stuck’ in a small Australian town

As tens of millions of people around the world watched two US astronauts safely return to earth, a key player in Australia’s burgeoning space industry sat on the launch pad.

  • Liam Mannix
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Trump’s staffing cuts to a key US meteorological agency threatens data used by Australia to monitor severe weather.

Trump’s attacks on science are a massive blow to Australia. These numbers show why

The ability to track and predict potentially deadly cyclones is just one of the capabilities scientists fear we could lose as the Trump administration guts “woke” scientific research.

  • Angus Dalton
Andy Bossie with a bag full of seeded shells.

How restaurant leftovers are playing a role in audacious bid to bring life back to Port Phillip Bay

Donated from Melbourne’s fanciest dining establishments, thousands of shells are now blanketing Port Phillip Bay’s most denuded areas.

  • Liam Mannix
OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos are both pouring billions into research to extend human lifespan. Australian-born scientist David Sinclair is a pioneer in this field and speaking at the World Science Festival in Brisbane.

Billionaires are racing to extend human life by decades. They are closer than you think

Australian-born Harvard geneticist David Sinclair says reversing the symptoms of ageing in animals and humans is now possible.

  • Nick Dent
A University of Queensland researcher has confirmed a boulder at a regional school contains one of the highest concentrations of dinosaur footprints per square metre ever documented in Australia. Dr Anthony Romilio from UQ’s Dinosaur Lab has identified 66 fossilised footprints left in the Callide Basin in Central Queensland during the Early Jurassic period, around 200 million years ago.

A boulder was donated to a high school 20 years ago. Only now has its secret been unearthed

One of the highest concentrations of dinosaur footprints ever documented in Australia has been hiding in plain sight at a regional Queensland high school.

  • Savannah Meacham

Original URL: https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/topic/science-61n