Australians overwhelmingly trust in science and scientists – and we strongly fear negative consequences for our society if people don’t value science enough.
The world was shocked with experiments that led to the first children with edited genomes, but the biophysicist behind the science refuses to speak about the work that sent him to jail for three years.
63-year-old artist Simon Beck makes colossal yet intricate designs on the unlikely canvas of enormous snowfields. Beck treks for hours carving with his feet, creating snow sculptures over a quarter mile long.
You can see right through the Ghost Catfish, which shimmers with rainbow colours in the the light. Scientists now know why.
Watch this great construction of how Earth’s landscape has changed over the past 100 million years and read about the science behind creating it
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