Holiday listening: Anh Nguyen Austen's story of rescue and reinvention
When Anh Nguyen Austen was a small girl, her family fled South Vietnam on a boat which met a once-in-a-century storm in the South China sea. When all ...
Holiday listening: the secret world of the human ear
For Professor Kelvin Kong, the ear is our most beautiful organ. Kelvin is a proud Worimi man and an ENT surgeon at the forefront of medical innovation...
Holiday Listening: Birds, bees and intelligent machines
When Professor Mandyam Srinivasan began studying bees almost 35 years ago, we was interested in learning how bees landed so elegantly, and avoided col...
Holiday Listening: Nerida's nudibranchs, sea dragons and siphonophores
As a marine molecular biologist, Dr Nerida Wilson spends a lot of her time getting acquainted with the mysterious creatures lurking in the dark depths...
Holiday Listening: Lee Berger, the real-life Indiana Jones, and the Case of the Lost Hominids
When Lee Berger entered the field of palaeoanthropology there was a one in 10,000,000 chance he would discover anything 'worthwhile' digging around So...
Holiday Listening: Fishing for feelings -- the many ways fish are smarter than you think
Dr Culum Brown is a leading researcher in the field of fish cognition, his research has shown that even that smallest fish are capable of learning and...
Holiday Listening: The flying vet from Outback Queensland
Dr Campbell Costello's work as a vet has taken him out of his family's station in North Queensland to places as far flung as Kazakhstan, Mongolia and ...
Holiday Listening: Slime moulds—the brainless blobs that can move and solve mazes
Dr Tanya Latty is an insect scientist with a quirky taste in pets, and a keen eye for detail, but it's the lessons from her brainless pet slime mould ...
Holiday Listening: David Bindi Hudson on playing his didgeridoo at the Taj Mahal
When his elders named him Bindi, David Hudson had no idea his future would involve performing with his didgeridoo at the Taj Mahal, or a role in a fil...
Holiday Listening: Learning from the mighty matriarchs of the animal kingdom
Erna Walraven was one of the first female zookeepers to work at Sydney's Taronga Zoo in the 1980s. Despite practical jokes from her male colleagues, l...