Skip to contentIf you have problems accessing content on the Western Sydney University website, please contact the Western Sydney University Student Services Hub on 1300 668 370.Show more links
Plants existed on Earth for hundreds of millions of years before the first flowers bloomed. But when flowering plants did evolve, more than 140 million years ago, they were a huge evolutionary success.
Varroa mites – notorious honey bee parasites – have recently reached Australian shores, detected at the Port of Newcastle in New South Wales last year.
Increasingly, students, partners and communities want to be associated with a university that is committed to our planet in the same way that they are.
The 20th-century philosopher and cultural critic Günther Anders once proposed that our modern age is characterised by a “Apocalypse-Blindheit”: a blindness to the apocalypse.
Fast radio bursts – intense, milliseconds-long flashes of radio energy from outer space – have puzzled astronomers since they were first spotted in 2007. A single burst can emit as much energy in its brief life as the Sun does in a few days.
Most of us have been stung by a bee and we know it’s not much fun. But maybe we also felt a tinge of regret, or vindication, knowing the offending bee will die. Right? Well, for 99.96% of bee species, that’s not actually the case.