Oct 4, 2025

Somewhere between backpacking in Cambodia and performing at the Melbourne Comedy Festival with the realisation that science-curious audiences are just about the loveliest folk you can get into a room, 'Science Comedy' was born.

Oct 4, 2025

Part laboratory, part gallery, part social experiment. Science Gallery Melbourne connects young people with big ideas through exploring the creative intersection between the arts and sciences

Oct 4, 2025

After completing her PhD, Jen Martin felt frustrated because she did not know how to share what she had discovered. A chance encounter led her to telling her story in classrooms, podcasts and on the radio.

Oct 3, 2025

A Melbourne company is bringing DNA fingerprinting technology out of the lab and into the community, helping citizen scientists to track secretive species and monitor the environment.

Oct 3, 2025

After high school I asked myself: “What should I study? Maybe science?” During university I asked myself: “What should I major in? Maybe I’ll just do what seems like fun.” But now: "..I have never in my life been more directional and passionate"

May 28, 2025

The world’s average temperature has already exceeded the target of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels agreed less than a decade ago in Paris. We are now counting the cost in increased natural disasters. But, David Holmes argues, organised misinformation is making the battle against climate change all the harder.

Oct 1, 2024

The Varroa destructor – yes, that’s its scientific name – is a tiny mite that has decimated honeybee colonies around the world. And an outbreak of this destructive parasite has been confirmed for the first time in Victoria near Mildura

Mar 5, 2024

De-extinction is not simply about putting a carbon-copy of an 1800’s thylacine back into the Tasmanian ecosystem. The thylacine co-evolved within that ecosystem over many thousands of years, and its role remains intact. Returning the native apex predator to that environment has the potential to stabilise it, and even save other endangered marsupials.

Dec 6, 2022

Whether “intelligence” can be created within hardware is a fascinating question, and one that remains unanswered despite significant efforts. In contrast, biological intelligence from a neural source offers a “ground truth” of opportunity. As such, the question becomes not ‘if’ general intelligence can arise from something artificial, but ‘how’.