Dr Jen returns to Breakfasters for the first Weird Science of 2021, bringing good news for dog lovers! Not only can your pooch be your best friend, there’s science supporting that they make…

Professor Brendan Wintle, conservation ecologist at the University of Melbourne and director of the NESP Threatened Species Recovery Hub, joins Amy Mullins to discuss the decade of biodiversity loss detailed in the recent…

Journalist Katharine Murphy explains her new Quarterly Essay,The End of Certainty; Melbourne comedian Prue Blake talks sleepovers and whistling; Actor Lucy Fox of ‘The Travelling Sisters’ chats about new mockumentary web-series…

Dr Anne Aulsebrook from La Trobe University and The University of Melbourne researches the effects that light pollution has on local wildlife. In a recent study, Anne looked at how light pollution affected…

Ever since he was three years old, Professor Stephen J. Simpson knew he was going to be a scientist. A professional career studying insects, psychology and nutrition has culminated in a new book…

Each winter, tens of thousands of spider crabs make their way to the Port Phillip Bay shallows to shed their shells, in one of the greatest animal migrations on the planet. 

Dallas D’Silva…

Mel talks to author Laura Jean McKay about her new novel The Animals In That Country, a surreal story about a foul-mouthed, alcoholic grandma searching for a lost granddaughter, the separation of…

In 1998, a beachcomber in Portland, Victoria discovered a bit of tooth that turned out to be a three million year old fossilised seal tooth. The discovery ended up changing our understanding of…

Kate Leaver is a journalist and author who has just released her book Good Dog, which delves into the curious and special bond that has evolved between canines and humans. Kate chats…

Magda Szubanski talks about how her book Timmy The Ticked-Off Pony and the Poo of Excitement came to be; Jackie Tang reviews New Zealand author Rose Lu’s essay collection, All Who Live On…