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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, arts and math’s) and educational toys, among other items, to help fund the new facility. “The boar...

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 joined with the Outback Exploratorium in Emerald and Dr Anita Milroy to involve Central Highlands r...