‘We discovered that they were in fact cooling themselves on the trunk’

‘I had observed that popular culture was one of the rare places where people were interacting across inter-ethnic lines’

Interview by Tim Clare

‘The idea of a bionic eye was something the entire scientific and medical community wanted to develop’

‘No one knows how to spin a dream better than Hollywood, so it’s interesting to look at their depiction of place’

Interview by Michelle See-Tho

‘We’re beginning to talk about success, and why people do well, and not treating it as a sensation when they do’

‘Instead of risking their lives attempting to cross a busy road, the little marsupials will isolate themselves to one side’

Interview by Ali Winters

‘The sky really is the limit on the different ways we can design cities . . . ‘

‘The rate of weight loss had no impact on long-term weight management’

Interview by Cally Sheng

‘We have new species of ferns in Australia because of this project’

Interview by Buffy Gorrilla

‘Teaching literacy is a very controversial field’

Interview by Anders Furze

‘Students can escape poor teachers, but they can’t escape poor assessment’

‘Patients with cancer performed significantly worse than we predicted’

Interview by Daniel Horsley

‘We want people to be able to use their knees forever’

Interview by Scott Tibballs

‘Doctors and nurses, even those we hadn’t trained, wanted to use the book and apply it to the care they delivered’

Interview by Annie Blatchford

‘The spinal cords of test animals were cut to create a spinal injury similar to what happens when a human spinal cord is severed in an accident’