Treading Lightly with Roger Smith
Revisiting Gippsland splendour
How tourism helped protect the “cradle of the eucalypts”.
Tim the Yowie Man
The curse of the Alkimos shipwreck
Australia’s thousands of kilometres of rocky coastline and shallow reefs harbour the rusting relics of more than 8000 ships.
Treading Lightly with Roger Smith
For the love of Mallee
Move slowly and quietly in this specialist Australian arid habitat and you might be rewarded by seeing one of the world’s rarest birds.
Tim the Yowie Man
The man buried three times
By definition, a final resting place is final, isn’t it? Well, not always, it seems.
Space with Fred Watson
Astronomers liken gamma-ray bursts to lighthouse beams
What would happen if time suddenly began running backwards? Of course, it can’t do that, but the question is one that recently crossed the minds of a team of astronomers in the USA.
Need To Know with Dr Karl
Drunk from the inside: Dr Karl explains rare auto-brewery syndrome
Amazingly, some people can manufacture alcohol inside their body from the food they eat – carbohydrates, to be specific. Some do it so well, they can raise their blood alcohol level to eight times the legal driving limit!
Tim the Yowie Man
A tale of mistaken identity and whalebone picnics
For more than 20 years, the jawbone of a whale lay on the grass just behind the golden sands of Long Beach, near Batemans Bay on the South Coast of New South Wales.
Climate
Dr Karl: Renewables and agriculture can coexist
Electricity and agriculture is not an ‘either/or situation’, argues Dr Karl.
Tim the Yowie Man
The eccentric Aussie bushranger you’ve never heard of
Ned Kelly, Ben Hall and Captain Thunderbolt – the criminal exploits of these notorious bushrangers are forever etched into our national psyche. But what about the Birdman of the Coorong?
Need To Know with Dr Karl
Dr Karl: ‘Nothing will convince the flat-Earthers’
In November 2023, SpaceX launched its second Starship rocket test flight. This was the heaviest, tallest and most powerful rocket ever built and – not unexpectedly – it didn’t work.