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May 1, 2024Dream homes
Flood-prone houses are being demolished across Brisbane’s riverside suburbs, leaving unnervingly uniform blocks of bright green grass
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May 1, 2024Dream homes
Flood-prone houses are being demolished across Brisbane’s riverside suburbs, leaving unnervingly uniform blocks of bright green grass
Society
March 1, 2017Holy shark
Leonie the leopard shark’s switch to asexual reproduction is a world first
Culture
July 1, 2016Desert blooms
Bruce Munro’s ‘Field of Light’ brings 50,000 LED spheres to Uluru
Culture
October 1, 2015The Ipswich treehouse story
Children’s lit heroes Andy Griffiths, Terry Denton and Jill Griffiths step off the page and onto the stage
Indonesia
May 1, 2014Mosquito diplomacy
A plan to stop dengue fever sets off invasion fears in Indonesia
How Cai Guo-Qiang turned a tree into a work of art
‘Falling Back to Earth’ at Brisbane’s QAGOMA
Society
August 1, 2013Our septuagenarian cricketers
It’s never too late to wear the baggy green
Astronomy
December 6, 2012Lights Out
Solar eclipse in Queensland
Astronomy
June 1, 2012Veni, Vidi, Venus
The transit of Venus
Society
December 1, 2011The Baskerville case
Norfolk Island’s chickens
Society
September 2, 2008Operation tom yum
Perhaps it was because I'd just seen the trailer for the new James Bond movie, but I was hoping for trench coats or disguises when I sat down to lunch with a group of secret Thai-food tasters. Perched at one of the broad, high tables at Jarun Pompanya's …
Society
July 2, 2008Lovely bones
Making sense of the Flores find
Society
June 4, 2008The charm of a charm
Early one May morning, on the edge of Brisbane’s Mt Coo-tha, a hundred people gather in a car park. The air is sharp, the light clear, and there are probably birds muttering in the trees overhead. Most of the people here would notice this. They’re …
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February 6, 2008Mane attraction
Under the spreading shade of a gum tree at the Mogo Zoo, just down from Batemans Bay, a furry cluster of lion cubs is at play: batting at a red ball hanging from the tree, swiping at each other's tails, worrying at their father's mane. They have handsome …
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November 7, 2007Lazarus taxa
Extinction is one of the most popularly understood scientific ideas - that dangerous slide through the categories ‘threatened’, ‘vulnerable’, ‘endangered’ and so on. There are celebrity cases like dodos and thylacines, and lesser-known cases …