Tick Tock, Food O’Clock: Why the timing of your meals matters for health and wellbeing
on 20/04/2026
Dr Amy Hutchison, University of Adelaide Have you ever wondered why you have lots of energy during the day, and feel sleepy at night? Or maybe you skipped breakfast and felt your stomach rumble loudly in class? This is all the work of your circadian rhythm, or body clock. Your...
CRISPR Explained: The Gene-Editing Tool Transforming Science
on 06/04/2026
by Daniella Edwards Imagine being able to correct a spelling mistake in DNA the same way you fix a typo in a document. Instead of rewriting the entire sentence, you simply find the incorrect letter, delete it, and replace it with the correct one. That idea might sound like science...
Seeing the Edges: How Curiosity (and a Few Thousand Dots) Can Help Children Smile
on 30/03/2026
When people think about Artificial Intelligence (AI), they often imagine robots, self-driving cars, or maybe ChatGPT. But in our lab at the University of Adelaide, AI is helping us look at something much closer to home: children’s faces. Recently, my team worked on a project to help doctors better understand...
Marine Plastics: From Pollution to Solution
on 07/04/2025
Written by Dr Nina Wootton from the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Adelaide The problem with plastic Plastic is everywhere. It’s in our homes, our workplaces, our oceans, and even in the food we eat. Once considered a groundbreaking material for its durability and versatility, plastic has...
Turning failed antibiotics into weedkillers
on 31/03/2025
Dr Tatiana Soares da Costa, School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, Waite Research Institute, University of Adelaide Weeds are popping up everywhere! Not just in our backyards, but also in farms all around Australia and the world. Weeds reduce the quality and size of food harvests, costing Australian farmers over...
Taking the recycling ethos into the lab to collect much needed data on our aquatic environments
on 17/03/2025
Zoë Doubleday – Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer, University of South Australia As an environmental scientist, I’m an avid recycler at home. But I also apply the “reduce, reuse, and recycle” ethos to the workplace as well, and I’m not just talking about recycling the refuse of my lunch, I’m...
A mix of science and culture to snag seagrass rescue in a world heritage site
on 10/03/2025
Dr Elizabeth Sinclair, School of Biological Science and Oceans Institute, University of Western Australia and Patricia Oakley, Malgana Elder, Ranger, and Indigenous Knowledge holder Please be advised that the following article contains images of an Indigenous person who has died, which are used with family permission. Yandani Gathaagudu, Shark Bay,...