An interdisciplinary team has used a new technique known as plasma oxidation to produce radio carbon dates for paint fragments as small as 10 micrograms in width.
Paleontologists are using a range of old and new techniques to map the Broome Sandstone dinosaur trackways.
Recent research shows shifting sand dunes threaten to envelop several important Mid West roads within the next few years.
In a world first, a Curtin University physicist used data from the International Space Station to map coastal bathymetry (underwater terrain).
Purposely sharpened or 'retouched' stone axes evolved in Australia thousands of years before they appeared in Europe according to researchers studying the south-east Asian archaeological record.
A Sydney-based entomologist has described a new single-species fly genus, found only at Millstream near Karratha.
A group of geologists working for the Geological Survey of Western Australia has confirmed a long-standing belief that most of the Yilgarn Craton has a similar crustal architecture.
A team of researchers based at Newcastle University are working to create a Kimberley wildlife sperm bank.
Subterranean ants and termites are leading researchers and prospectors alike, to gold and other minerals in the northern Yilgarn district.
A strategy that applies herbicides to crops at two different times has been found to effectively combat weeds including wild radish (Raphanus raphanistrum) in northern Wheatbelt crops.
