Missing Asteroid Mystery Mitigated

There are asteroids missing from the belt between Mars and Jupiter, and now researchers think they were shoved out of place by two of our solar system’s gas giants – Jupiter and Saturn, as they assumed their current orbit some 4 billion years ago.Writing in the journal Nature, David Minton and Renu ...

Walk like a man

As the Bee Gees sang in their seventies hit Staying Alive, there’s a lot you can tell from the way someone uses their walk. And now it seems that our ancestors may have been walking like us for at least 1.5 million years.That’s according to a study published this week in the journal Science by a tea...

Happy Birthday Seeds!

A global seed bank in Svalbard celebrated its 1st birthday on the 26th of February, but rather than receiving a cake, they received a four tonne shipment of seeds from all over the world, bringing the total number of seeds stored to over 20 million. Described as the “custodians of the crown jewels ...

Wannabe octopus fugitive

It wasn’t quite the Great Escape, but aquarium keepers at Santa Monica Pier Aquarium in the United States were left knee deep in water this week when a cheeky octopus tried to make a break for freedom.The female two-spotted octopus, about 30cm long, swam to the top of her tank and using her dextrous...

First Fish Sex

Nicola Phillips, from the ABC Radio National's Science Show, speaks to John Long from Museum Victoria about the first fish to ever have sex, and what this can tell us about our own evolution...

Self-flying planes and Water Batteries

Meera catches up with Kelvin Kemm for the latest news from South Africa, including unmanned aeroplanes transporting blood samples, and a giant watery battery...

This Week in Science History - Mendeleev's Periodic Table

This week in 1869, Mendeleev proposed the periodic table now adorning chemistry labs the world over...