Science journalist, feature writer and editor.
Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, has a new boss, Dr Geoff Garrett. He’s charming,...
His dream had been to teach painting, but Louis Pasteur became instead the man who not only proved...
Patricia Vickers-Rich is a palaeontologist with an infectious enthusiasm for the past, who’s...
By Wilson da SilvaSIXTY-FIVE MILLION years ago, in one catastrophic flash, the Earth changed...
By Wilson da Silva FEW PEOPLE have an asteroid named after them, much less a planet or a...
It was a marvel of its time, one of the world’s very first computers, but for decades remained a...
Marie Curie was not only the first woman in Europe to gain a doctorate in science, but the...
By Wilson da SilvaOUR SUN is a seething, broiling mass of superhot gases. Rivers of fire pour...
By Wilson da SilvaHIGH HEELS were not invented for comfort, as this coloured X-ray of a...
By Wilson da SilvaHEARD OF data mining? It’s all the rage. Thanks to the burgeoning databanks...