Foreword Professor Veena SahajwallaIntroduction Zoe Kean and Tegan Taylor1 Moments of kindness in a regional hospital Michael Leach2 The night I accidentally became a corpse flower' s bedside manservant Angus Dalton3 From the Prologue of Vector: A surprising story of space, time, and mathematical transformation Robyn Arianrhod4 Solomon Islands tribes sell carbon credits, not their trees Jo Chandler5 Cat-astrophe: Australia' s feral cat problem Cat Williams6 When did your kidney stone start growing? ANTSO scientist carbon dated his to find out Jacinta Bowler7 China's race for fusion energy. Gemma Conroy8 ' Earth poetry' in the Arctic Lucinda Duxbury9 Fishing for a glacier's secrets Mark Horstman10 Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Mae Jemison, and Carolyn Beatrice Parker Alicia Sometimes11 Is this actually PTSD? Clinicians divided over redefining borderline personality disorder Natasha May12 A freediver finds belonging without breath Sally Montgomery13 Faster Higher Stronger Doper Mathew Ward Agius14 Insect consciousness Amalyah Hart15 Air conditioning quietly changed Australian life in just a few decades James Purtill16 Mirror molecules: The twisted problem of chemical chirality Ellen Phiddian17 How surviving a deadly animal encounter is not the end of trauma Angela Heathcote18 Some psychedelic medicine developers want to ditch the therapy aspect. What could go wrong? Richard Haridy19 A snowflake in hell Jackson Ryan20 Staying faithful to Earth: A meditation on our planetary kin in the universe Ceridwen Dovey21 Whale talk Drew Rooke22 Gaza: Why is it so hard to establish the death toll? Smriti Mallapaty23 Sounds of the slow-rolling sea Sara Webb24 Smooth fade Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn25 Why can't we remember our lives as babies or toddlers? Donna Lu26 Using trash to track other trash Claire Watson27 Alternative accommodation Anne Casey28 Ethical problems continue to plague biometric studies of Chinese minority groups Dyani Lewis29 From hypnotised to heretic: Immunising society against misinformation Linda McIver30 Humanoid robots: Made in our image Owen Cumming31 Skink on the brink Anthea Batsakis32 My partner and I both have Long COVID. We tread the underworld together Felicity Nelson33 Mystery seismic waves that rippled around Earth for nine days caused by Greenland tsunami: study Carl Smith and Peter de Kruijff34 The world has been its hottest on record for 10 months straight. Scientists can't fully explain why Tyne Logan35 Why some venomous snakes can bite and kill even when they're dead and decapitated Belinda Smith36 A museum heist 70 years ago is still causing a flutter in butterfly science today Olivia Congdon37 Stanford Prison Experiment: Why the lead psychologist defended his infamous study to the end Rachel Fieldhouse38 Deep time encounters in the garden Fiona McMillan-Webster 39 The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements Tabitha Carvan.