Science Queeries

14 Sep 2024

Planting some vine ideas

Food, Health, Medicine

Dr Cat has an out-of-this-world conversation with Lee Conneely from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space. Lee studies how we can insert the genetic instructions for plant-based medicines into other plants so that they can grow the medicines for us. Can we grow tomatoes in space for astronauts to eat the tomatoes and harvest medicine from the leaves? Can we use industrial hemp to produce big yields of different medicines? The idea seems light years ahead or like science fiction, but it is a reality…and a pretty vine idea.

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28 Jan 2026

Waddle We Know About Penguins?

Animals, Biology, Places & Travel, Science & Medicine

Penguins may live at the bottom of the world, but they’ve risen to the very top of our hearts. For Penguin ...

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Paws for Thought: Are Dogs Happy?

Animals, Science & Medicine, Social Sciences

We spend over $20 billion a year on our dogs in Australia — but are our dogs actually happy, or ...

14 Jan 2026

Past Weather, Future Problems

Environment, Natural Sciences, Science & Medicine, Uncategorized

What if the key to Australia’s climate future is hidden in its past? When we talk about climate change, we often ...