MARINE BIOLOGY  Sea cucumbers play an important role in tropical marine ecosystems, recycling nutrients on the ocean floor and mixing sediment. Healthy populations can enhance coral health. A collaborative study between the...

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It’s very much a real-life doco version of ‘The Lion King’, with Jon Favreau executive producing, and music from Hans Zimmer echoing themes from the Disney classic. It took Disney+ and BBC Studios’...

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Annual SharkFest gets up close with hammerheads Shark fans are warming up for their annual ‘SharkFest’ courtesy of National Geographic, now in its 14th year, and kicking off on July 5 with the...

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In the documentary ‘A Road Trip To Remember’, Chris Hemsworth and his recently dementia-diagnosed father take a road trip back through their past, while exploring social connection and reminiscence therapy using the advice...

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Wake-up call, and a call to arms The spectacular feature-length documentary ‘Ocean with David Attenborough’ is his very first partnership with National Geographic, now showing on Disney+ channel in Australia. With the great...

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THE AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED CREDO We share with our readers a fascination with science, technology, nature, culture and archaeology, and believe that through education about our past, present and future, we can make...

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National Geographic’s series ‘A Real Bug’s Life’ returns on January 15th to Disney+ for a second season, this time including an episode dedicated to our unique Australian insect life. The production team shared...

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While there is consensus that our Sun formed about 4.6 billion years ago from a molecular cloud of gas and dust, less has been known about how long the formation of the star...

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Mauna Loa in Hawaii is the world’s largest active volcano, and its 2022 eruption was the volcano’s 34th since 1843. But why is such a giant volcano located in the middle of the...

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Palaeontologists from Flinders University have described three unusual new species of giant fossil kangaroo. Over the last decade, a series of discoveries around Lake Callabonna in arid South Australia have yielded multiple complete...

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Deep Sky is directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn: a new film which uses the scale of giant IMAX screens to take audiences on a journey to the beginning of time and space,...

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While kangaroos are a very social species, there has until recently been no evidence that they form long-term relationships between individuals. But a new study by researchers from UNSW Sydney indicates that this...

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