After only two days at sea, and while most people are still finding their sea legs, a team of scientists from the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre (ACE CRC), University of Tasmania and Australian National University, has begun a relentless schedule of trawling for snails.

When an Olympic athlete gets hurt training, one of the best recovery tools is a simple chemical compound found all around us – water.

Meet Noel – a 27 year old astronautical engineer who works with NASA’s super computers to find a new way to land on Mars. Read the interview to learn about the possibility of humans on Mars, how physics affects our everyday lives and the role of rockets, parachutes and airbags in space.

Gone are the days of paintbrushes, pencils and pottery- an exhibition in northern NSW heralds digital microscopy as the newest form of art.

During a recent live interview on ABC Newcastle Radio, Chief Scientist for Australia, Professor Penny Sackett promised to answer your quirky questions here on the Chief Scientist web site.
Now her team has squirrelled out the answers.

Get out your cosmic candles, planet party poppers, and spacey streamers -the Hubble Space Telescope is turning 20 tomorrow.

Professor Penny Sackett, Chief Scientist for Australia was interviewed by Ticky Fullerton on ABC’s Lateline programme, aired on March 18th 2010.

Find out how scientific processes and the power of the sun create the flavour of your favourite Jelly Beans

AIATSIS co-hosted the first ever Indigenous Astronomy Symposium coinciding with Ilgarijiri: Things belonging to the sky exhibition by Yamaji artists.

Australia’s Chief Scientist, Professor Penny Sackett discusses climate change in an address titled, Moving the world, ahead of the Copenhagen Summit.