Article & Student Activity Please login to favourite this article. Australian research brings scientists closer to making blood stem cells in the lab Biological SciencesHealth & Medical SciencesSTEM Australian blood stem cell research could help change the future of stem cell medicine. Two new pieces of research out... Years 8 & 10
Article & Student Activity Please login to favourite this article. Spring cleaning cells take out the trash before they divide Biological SciencesSTEM Cells may use this strategy to clear out toxic by-products and give their offspring a clean slate. These resources can... Years 8 & 10-12
Video & Film, Article, SCINEMA & Student Activity Please login to favourite this article. Why is there asymmetry in nature? Biological SciencesChemical SciencesEarth SciencesSTEM From lefty snails to deadly chemicals, asymmetry in nature is more common than you think. Use the free student activity... Years 3, 5, 8 & 10
Article & Student Activity Please login to favourite this article. EXPLAINER: How do cells know when they’re fully grown? Biological SciencesSTEM Scientists unlock the key to cell size regulation – and it’s all in the DNA. How do cells regulate their... Years 8 & 10
Video & Film & Student Activity Please login to favourite this article. How did we get here? Are races real? Biological SciencesSTEM How does race connect with our evolutionary past? And what does genetics have to do with it? We asked evolutionary... Years 10
Article Please login to favourite this article. Top five examples of convergent evolution Biological SciencesSTEM When faced with a problem, natural selection will often produce similar solutions in unrelated animals. Use this short article with... Years 10
Article & Student Activity Please login to favourite this article. COSMOS Magazine: Live Fast, Die Last Biological SciencesSTEM In complete defiance of one of nature’s most fundamental laws, a species of tiny, frenetic bat is living 10 times... Years 2-3, 5 & 7-8
Article, Citizen Science & Student Activity Please login to favourite this article. Grow some spines for EchidnaCSI Biological SciencesSTEMTechnology Opportunities for a little echidna detective work. This article describes a citizen science project that asks the community to submit... Years 5-7 & 9-10
Article Please login to favourite this article. Can cat genes explain their nine lives? Biological SciencesSTEM Maybe not, but they can help unravel genomic mutations. This article describes research about cat genomes and mutations. It is... Years 10
Article Please login to favourite this article. How do scientists know evolution is real? Biological SciencesEarth SciencesSTEM The idea of evolution – that species change and evolve over time – is the foundation of biology. But how... Years 3-5, 7 & 9-12
Article Please login to favourite this article. The engineer using nanotechnology to mend broken hearts Biological SciencesChemical SciencesPhysical SciencesSTEMTechnology Hossein Tavassoli is working to mend broken hearts using an incredible nanotech breakthrough – and he wants to tell the... Years 8-10
Video & Film Please login to favourite this article. Bringing Japan’s breakthrough cancer technology to Australia Asia & Australia's Engagement with AsiaBiological SciencesChemical SciencesPhysical SciencesSTEMTechnology For more than 20 years Japan has used a revolutionary technology to treat cancer. Now, Australian physicists and doctors are... Years 5 & 8-10
