Outback Exploratorium News Today

Premium Content Subscriber only A new educational space has opened in Emerald, offering Central Highlands communities and visitors an inclusive space to learn, support others and express creativity. Central Highlands Science Centre underwent a transformation last year and has reopened as the Outback Exploratorium, moving from the Emerald Showgrounds to Emerald’s town centre. The new space boasts a large retail space, known as the nest, which carries STEAM (science, technology, engineering, ar...

Premium Content Subscriber only Did you know female ticks can lay up to 20,000 eggs in a single batch and there are more than 800 species of ticks in the world? Those are just a couple of the facts more than 50 participants learned at a Tick Information Workshop at CQUniversity’s Emerald Campus recently. The workshop was part of Parasites in the Wild, a citizen science project tailor-made to the Central Highlands. In Parasites in the Wild, CQUniversity researchers Saba Sinai and Dr Amy Cosby...