Jesse Hawley

13 December 2018

writing, science

Love is in the water: Critically endangered handfish embrace art, new ceramic nests

Jesse Hawley

13 December 2018

writing, science

Love is in the water: Critically endangered handfish embrace art, new ceramic nests

Critically endangered spotted handfish have taken to artificially created ceramic nests, used in unique springtime courtship rituals.

Jesse Hawley

9 April 2018

science, writing

Devourer of worlds: two of the worst pests have hybridised into a global ‘mega-pest’

Jesse Hawley

9 April 2018

science, writing

Devourer of worlds: two of the worst pests have hybridised into a global ‘mega-pest’

Ravenous caterpillar that eats hundreds of plant species, unstopped by pesticides, and that's never been to the Americas arrives in the Americas and hybridises with the locally adapted caterpillar. What more?

Jesse Hawley

3 August 2017

science, miscellany

Interronauts | the CSIRO podcast

Jesse Hawley

3 August 2017

science, miscellany

Interronauts the CSIRO podcast I'm lucky enough to co-host. Here are the episodes, films clips, and a bit of background

Jesse Hawley

21 July 2016

science, miscellany, personal

Comic Science News — This Week in Science Today (TWIST) — 2SER FM

Jesse Hawley

21 July 2016

science, miscellany, personal

Comic Science News — This Week in Science Today (TWIST) — 2SER FM

2SER has given me a regular weekly segment to discuss science news. Yabbadabbadoo.

Jesse Hawley

11 May 2016

fine art & animation, commission, science

Cactus Car and Nature cover | Painting for CSIRO

Jesse Hawley

11 May 2016

fine art & animation, commission, science

Cactus Car and Nature cover | Painting for CSIRO

Cactus-inspired fuel cell membrane — oil painting and radio spot.

Jesse Hawley

26 March 2016

cartoons & comics, commission, science

New way to harvest stem cells (comic)

Jesse Hawley

26 March 2016

cartoons & comics, commission, science

CSIRO recently developed a new way to harvest stem cells for leukaemia patients (comic).

Jesse Hawley

26 March 2016

commission, cartoons & comics, science

Bat immunity CSIRO commission

Jesse Hawley

26 March 2016

commission, cartoons & comics, science

CSIRO recently sequenced a part of a bat's genome, revealing how they might stave infections (comic).

Jesse Hawley

17 February 2016

science, writing

Big Ben, one of Australia's only active volcanoes erupts/radio appearance on 2ser

Jesse Hawley

17 February 2016

science, writing

Big Ben, one of Australia's only active volcanoes erupts/radio appearance on 2ser

One of Australia's only active volcanoes — Big Ben — erupts. Here's my article and radio appearance on the story.

Jesse Hawley

29 October 2015

science, writing

It’s All in Your Mind: The feeling of ‘wetness’ is an illusion

Jesse Hawley

29 October 2015

science, writing

It’s All in Your Mind: The feeling of ‘wetness’ is an illusion

The feeling of 'wetness' seems to be no more than an illusion.

Jesse Hawley

29 August 2015

science, writing

Bird diversity took flight only after the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs

Jesse Hawley

29 August 2015

science, writing

Bird diversity took flight only after the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs

DNA was analysed to write out the complete family tree for birds. They found that bird species diversified only once dinosaurs went extinct.

Jesse Hawley

29 April 2015

science, writing

The scientific method in action

Jesse Hawley

29 April 2015

science, writing

Researchers used a carefully designed experiment to show that anole lizards in Florida evolved in just 15 years to cope with an invading lizard species.

Jesse Hawley

6 March 2015

science, writing

Beecause I forgot: Bumblebees get their memories mixed up too

Jesse Hawley

6 March 2015

science, writing

Beecause I forgot: Bumblebees get their memories mixed up too

Bumblebees have been shown to misremember traits of desirable stimuli, conflating two familiar traits to pursue an unfamiliar mix.

Jesse Hawley

17 January 2015

science, writing

Missing Mars probe Beagle 2 sniffed out by satellite after 11 year disappearance

Jesse Hawley

17 January 2015

science, writing

Missing Mars probe Beagle 2 sniffed out by satellite after 11 year disappearance

Eleven years after the Beagle 2 spacecraft disappeared on Mars, NASA’s orbiting reconnaissance satellite has snapped photos of what appears to be the Beagle 2’s hull in the dusts of the Red Planet.

Jesse Hawley

1 January 2015

science, writing

Fish Fingers: The genes we share with our scaly cousins

Jesse Hawley

1 January 2015

science, writing

Fish Fingers: The genes we share with our scaly cousins

Geneticists have used fish fin-forming genes to generate wrists and digits in mice — providing evidence for limb homology.

Jesse Hawley

24 November 2014

science, writing

Friendly viruses discovered in the stomach's ever-growing ecosystem

Jesse Hawley

24 November 2014

science, writing

Friendly viruses discovered in the stomach's ever-growing ecosystem

Sterile, bacteria-free mice with damaged guts can have their insides healed by a common rodent virus, providing the first evidence of internal, beneficial, virus communities.

Jesse Hawley

13 November 2014

science, writing

Chronic smokers: Marijuana's long-term effects on the brain

Jesse Hawley

13 November 2014

science, writing

Chronic smokers: Marijuana's long-term effects on the brain

Researchers used MRI to show that chronic marijuana users had increased brain connectivity but also reduced orbitofrontal cortices.

Jesse Hawley

3 November 2014

science, writing

Birds of a feather manipulate together: Dominant ravens actively disrupt potentially threatening alliances

Jesse Hawley

3 November 2014

science, writing

Birds of a feather manipulate together: Dominant ravens actively disrupt potentially threatening alliances

Ravens in stable social alliances will actively disrupt other relationships from forming in order to maintain social capital.

Jesse Hawley

25 October 2014

science, writing

In the Eye of the Be'Older: The effects of subliminal intervention on elderly self-perception

Jesse Hawley

25 October 2014

science, writing

In the Eye of the Be'Older: The effects of subliminal intervention on elderly self-perception

Exposing the elderly to positive stereotypes can be healthy.

Jesse Hawley

6 October 2014

science, writing

Puppy Love: Mothers' brains show similar responses to images of their pet dogs and their own children

Jesse Hawley

6 October 2014

science, writing

Puppy Love: Mothers' brains show similar responses to images of their pet dogs and their own children

The brains of mothers respond with similar feelings to their children and pets.

Jesse Hawley

1 October 2014

science, writing

New Microfossils Flesh Out the Story of Multicellular Life

Jesse Hawley

1 October 2014

science, writing

New Microfossils Flesh Out the Story of Multicellular Life

An interesting microfossil may hold clues to the origin of multicellular life.