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Growing up, Philip Bowrey spent much of his time learning and playing in the virtual world.

It might seem like one of the latest food trends, but did you know people in Australia and around the world have been eating insects for millennia? JCU’s Professor Andreas Lopata shares his research into how we can create a safe and sustainable

Few could carve out a dream vocation that involves digging for dinosaurs across the world and uncovering African hominid fossils of staggering significance, but geologist Dr Eric Roberts hasn’t had just any old career.

From rhinos in Africa to horses in Mongolia, JCU Alumni Dr Campbell Costello has worked with animals all across the globe. Now, he’s back on Australian soil treating animals in the outback.

JCU Professor Bruce Gummow has spent a lifetime forging a unique path in the veterinary sciences. His journey has led to ground-breaking achievements in animal disease prevention, control and eradication across almost every continent.

It is important to recognise the essential role that veterinarians play in promoting fairness and equity within the veterinary profession. JCU Veterinary Science student Isabella Sorrentino shares her exchange program experience in Thailand and the

Some of the largest structures ever documented in the Australian archaeological record are being studied in the remote Gulf of Carpentaria in northern Australia, revealing the sophisticated engineering capabilities of Indigenous Australians.

When JCU alumni, Dr Brooke Schampers, began working with the Animal Emergency Service in Brisbane, she quickly discovered that she had entered a wild world. From patients in need of urgent care to the long nights of shift work, Dr Brooke shares her

JCU Alumni Regan Lynch says that she’s always had her sights set on veterinary science. Now a vet working in North West Queensland, Regan shares what it’s like to work in a mixed practice clinic and her plans to branch out into biosecurity

As an expert in bioinformatics, Associate Professor Matt Field generally focuses on questions involving tropical diseases and personalised medicine. However, he recently took a detour into dingo DNA research and found information that could

JCU Bachelor of Engineering — Bachelor of Science student Ethan Waters is one of the leaders of the JCU Robotics Team in the 2022 Maritime RobotX Challenges this November. However, the competition itself is only one of many challenges the team

While the European honeybee is most widely recognised in the global movement to save the bees, Australia has a number of native pollinators also in need of our help.

Notorious for spreading through oceans and lakes in toxic blooms that can affect humans, livestock, and fish alike, algae can be very bad news. But they also have a good side.

JCU PhD student Tom Swan researches tiger mosquitos in the Torres Strait, in order to better protect Australia from the bite of one of the most aggressive mosquitos in the world.

Known as the ‘other’ CO2 problem, ocean acidification stunts the growth of corals and shelled marine organisms, slowing future recovery from mass bleaching events.