Associate Professor Jay Black

Experimental Geochemist/Micro-CT Specialist, School of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne

Sciences & Technology

Research

Giant jars, ancient bells, buried bones and a mystery that endures

On a remote Laos plateau, thousands of stone jars hold clues to an ancient megalithic culture. An Australian-Lao team is piecing together what survives one artefact at a time

Sciences & Technology

The story in the bones of lizards and frogs

Highly detailed CT scans of the tiny fossilised bones of Australia’s lizards and frogs are telling scientists an important story of adaptation and extinction in a changing climate