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Islands in the sky: can steep-sided hills help protect threatened species?

Promising results from a study at Mount Talaterang in the Morton National Park in NSW offer a new pathway for the rewilding and protection of endangered species beyond traditional methods within fenced areas.

NSW primary school syllabus overhaul: experts explain

University of Sydney education experts weigh in on how changes to science, history, arts and physical health and wellbeing in the new primary school syllabus will affect teachers and students.

Sydney research shows plants are more diverse in extreme climates

The study is an important development in the knowledge of plant adaptation and will help scientists look at the possible future evolution of these fragile ecosystems.

Over $8 million in research funding to Sydney ARC Future Fellows

Eight University of Sydney researchers have been awarded Australian Research Council funding in recognition of their projects tacking key research challenges.

Sydney plays crucial role in monitoring global genetic diversity

Nine countries took part in the study, led locally by Associate Professor Catherine Grueber. In Australia, genetic data is helping inform management of the numbat and other threatened species.

Eureka Prize 2024 finalists announced

The awards honour researchers leading in their fields to tackle some of the world's most complex problems.

NSW biodiversity reforms signal progress, but gaps still exist

Professor Carolyn Hogg from the Faculty of Science at the University of Sydney, Jaana Dielenberg from Charles Darwin University and Professor Hugh Possingham from the University of Queensland discuss the NSW Government's proposed major overhaul of the Biodiversity Conservation Act.

ABC TOP 5 media residencies for 2024 announced

Dr Laura Case, an Indigenous musicologist at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and Dr Laura Driessen, a radio astronomer in the Faculty of Science, have each won a two-week media residency with the ABC.

New antidote for cobra bites discovered using CRISPR technology

Snakes kill more than 100,000 people a year. Cobra antivenom is expensive and doesn't treat the necrosis of flesh caused by the bite. Working with colleagues in the UK, Professor Greg Neely's team has identified heparin as an antidote to cobra venom.

Australia's 'Easter bunny', the bilby, has had its genome fully sequenced

Under pressure from predatory foxes and cats and competing with feral rabbits, the Greater bilby has lost more than 80 percent of its habitat. Conservation work led by Professor Carolyn Hogg is designed to help save the bilby from extinction.

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