Ashley Hay

Leonie the leopard shark’s switch to asexual reproduction is a world first

Bruce Munro’s ‘Field of Light’ brings 50,000 LED spheres to Uluru

Children’s lit heroes Andy Griffiths, Terry Denton and Jill Griffiths step off the page and onto the stage

A plan to stop dengue fever sets off invasion fears in Indonesia

‘Falling Back to Earth’ at Brisbane’s QAGOMA

It’s never too late to wear the baggy green

Solar eclipse in Queensland

The transit of Venus

Norfolk Island’s chickens

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 …

Making sense of the Flores find

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 aviculturists …

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 …

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 …

On a table of its own, in the pulmonary section of the Museum of Human Disease at the University of New South Wales, sits a solid-looking object, jet black but glistening as if it’s been sprinkled with some crushed jewel, some metallic powder. It’s …