BY: PHILIPPE DE JOCAS Graphene is one tough cookie. Not only are scientists trying to find a way to turn this much-touted wonder substance into a new way to build orbital structure, but they are searching for more and more…
New program brings 7 different strangers to your dinner table who you would normally never talk to
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP In our world of technology, it’s seemingly harder and harder to make friends in an organic way without the use of an app or needing a wifi connection. Most likely, if a stranger walked up to you…
Students recreate Martin Shkreli’s $750 life-saving drug for $2, proving he’s the ultimate douche bag
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP A real-life Breaking Bad moment went down in Sydney Grammar high school. But, rather than ruining some lives by cooking up meth in a beaten down RV, the students were on humanity’s side as they recreated a…
Seaweed-eating cattle may be our best weapon to fight climate change
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP The biggest nuisance on the beach, seaweed, may be our next environmental saviour. New research in Australia discovered that if we were to add dried seaweed to two per cent of sheep and cattle feed, we could…
Beautiful wildlife sanctuary could be yours for free – as long as you’re willing to care for the animals
BY: JESSICA BEUKER In what could only be one of the greatest and most rewarding jobs ever, Harry Kunz has spent the last 30 years working with animals and building a thriving wildlife oasis – Eagles Nest Wildlife Sanctuary. His…
Australians cook up change with a new spin on potluck dinners
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP The tomato sauce that will reach its expiry date in a matter of days, the red onions that are beginning to wilt and the beef that you meant to cook last week, yet somehow forgot…these are the…
The world’s last all-white humpback whale is still dodging harpoons in the Southern Pacific
BY: STEFANIE PHILLIPS What weighs nearly 36,000 kilograms, stretches over 12 metres in length, was born 30 some years ago and is white all over? If you guessed Migaloo the albino humpback whale you’re either an Australian who’s really into…
Residents of this underground town live invisible to the eyes of surface dwellers
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Desert temperatures that exceed 104 degrees Fahrenheit have left the surface inhospitable—which is why over half of the town’s 2,000 citizens live underground. Coober Pedy, a small town in South Australia, sits upon the edge of a…