August 2024
Quadrant Growth Fund dealmaker invests in fast-growing medtech
It’s one of few such companies of scale in Australia and is right in Johnny Zhang’s wheelhouse.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
May 2024
Like a chicken or a baboon – just how smart was T. rex?
If the long-extinct giant wasn’t scary enough, imagine if it was as clever as a primate – but not every zoologist is on board with the idea.
- Will Dunham
March 2023
Scientists launch initiative to look for extraterrestrial life
Astrobiologists believe simple organisms pervade the universe but advanced civilisations are extremely rare.
- Clive Cookson
April 2022
Stolen Darwin notebooks, missing for decades, are returned
The books are filled with Charles Darwin’s scrawled handwriting and sketches from 1837.
- Daniel Victor
October 2021
This New York-based fund manager hates Alibaba but loves PayPal
The payments sector has entered a golden era, says Aravt Global’s Yen Liow, who hails from Melbourne.
- Richard Henderson
January 2021
The secret humans hidden in our DNA
Homo sapiens did not drive the other species of humans that once lived with us on this planet to extinction; instead we simply merged with them.
- Madelaine Böhme, Rüdiger Braun and Florian Breier
October 2020
Babies are no longer being born with wisdom teeth
Shorter faces, extra bones in feet and legs, and an artery in the forearm are among anatomical differences showing humans are evolving faster than previously thought.
- Jessica Carpani
December 2019
Why dogs can't help falling in love
Animal behaviourist Clive Wynne argues that a dog’s ability to bond has more to do with forming emotional attachments than being smart about what humans want.
- James Gorman
June 2019
Why dogs evolved 'puppy dog eyes'
New research suggests that over thousands of years of dog domestication, people preferred pups that could pull off that appealing, sad look.