Ask a Scientist: Is there life on Mars?

Today’s questions about space are a little bit less about standing on the ground looking up, and a bit more about getting into space ourselves. The answers are brought to you by AC, who is not an astronaut, despite wanting to be one until about year 10, when she realised she was going to be too short. (Who knew there were height limits on rockets?). Also, Australia STILL doesn’t have a space program, which she finds really annoying…

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Ask a Scientist: All creatures, great and small!

Today’s Ask a Scientist post is a bit of a Carnival of the Animals, with lots of different species represented here! We have also represented several kingdoms and phyla of animal-loving scientist – our marine biology enthusiast is Lizzie Lieschke, is a PhD student, our advisor on all things canine is Research Assistant and Team WEHI walker and runner extraordinaire, Natasha Silke, and our exponent of new species is Doug Hilton, Laboratory Head and Director at WEHI.

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