Self Improvement Wednesday

Dr John Martin tells us what he found when he tracked twelve yellow-tailed black cockatoos for a year

In 2010 a new species of frog was discovered in the forests of Vietnam.

Sadly deforestation is threatening the habitat these little frogs depend on, putting their very future at risk.

Meet Nugget, the baby Golden Brush Tailed Possum

Is passion more important than reason?

A hundred years ago today Les Darcy, boxer, larrikin, working class hero and folk legend died.

One of the difficulties that people sometimes say they have with Shakespeare's dialogue is that it is all written in verse. We might think about verse as a defining characteristic of the dialogue that Shakespeare writes, but it is not the whole story.

Each week you learn something new - this week a lesson on alcohol in Ancient Egypt.

The surface tension of water is enough to support some water-walking insects, but it's insignificant to human swimmers. Why is that so? That's the subject of this week's lesson with Professor Joe Wolfe from the Department of Physics at the UNSW.

Some alarming stories of how insect mothers behave in this week's Self Improvement. Your teacher is Eliza Middleton from the University of Sydney.

What does the rise of citizen science mean to society? Find out what it means and how it works with Fred Watson from the Australian Astronomical Observatory.