Science & Environment
Gallery: Gympie-Gympie: stings like “hot acid”
One small touch and this stinging plant sends you into excruciating pain.
Science & Environment
Gallery: Iceland’s volcanic eruptions
Australian geographer Deanne Bird warns that a second volcano could erupt in Iceland.
Science & Environment
Gallery: Gum blossoms of Australia
Colour explodes like festive fireworks from these Australian icons.
Photography
Gallery: Meteorite craters in Australia
Australia has 30 impact craters out of 176 recognised worldwide. See our gallery of some of the best.
Science & Environment
Gallery: Behind the scenes of the realistic animatronic dinosaurs
We go behind the scenes to see what it takes to make realistic animatronic dinosaurs come to life.
Nature & Wildlife
Gallery: Knowing our oceans
Just as the ocean is revealing its mysteries, we’re finding out how delicate its many ecosystems are.
Science & Environment
Gallery: Living on the floodplains
Sporadic heavy rains bring a slow tide of change to parched lands in the Murray-Darling basin.
Science & Environment
Antarctic emperor penguins on thicker ice
Breeding on ice shelves may help protect against climate change.
Science & Environment
Gallery: Unusual cloud formations
Clouds help us predict weather, but these phenomena can take on weird and wonderful forms.
Photography
Gallery: What happens when bubbles freeze
In the Arctic freeze engulfing the US, frozen bubbles have created a whimsical diversion from the cold.