Interviews
Chris touches down in Australia and steps inside a planetarium for the very first time. He talks to Carley Tillet of Horizon about spinning and space junk and makes a quick stop at South Pole's night sky...
The man who won the Nobel Prize for discovering the bacterium that is responsible for stomach ulcers actually munched on a few of the bugs in order to find out what they do... Chris Smith talks to Barry Marshall...
Embarrassingly for the average Aussie, as a nation, they're amongst the worst emitters of greenhouse gases on a per capita basis of any country in the world. So why aren't they making more use of all that lovely sunshine they enjoy? New research in Sydney could generate hydrogen using titanium ox...
Many of Australia's unique and endangered species are under threat, largely owing to feral animals like cats and foxes, that have been introduced from Europe. But now, a major initiative called project Eden which is based in the Francois Peron National Park in Shark Bay, Northwest Australia, has be...
The Square Kilometre Array will be the largest radio telescope device ever constructed - a strong contender for the title of World's Largest Scientific Device. But how will it work and what do we hope to learn from this enormous project? Peter Quinn, Director of the International Centre for Radio ...
What have bees and gladiators got in common? Well, Boris Baer has been looking at their breeding habits and it turns out that bee’s sperm actually fight it out amongst themselves to determine who’s going to father the next generation...
Burling (known as "chumming" outside Australia) is the act of allowing the scent of bait into the water to attract sharks and other animals for fishing, study and tourism. But does the ever present smell of food, and lack of ultimate reward, change shark behaviour? Flinders University re...