A state of the art Vadose-zone Monitoring System (VMS) has been successfully installed at the University of Western Australia (UWA) Ridgefield Farm, near Pingelley in Western Australia, marking a significant milestone for high-tech agricultural monitoring in Australia.

In new research published in American Mineralogist, researchers show how tiny zircons formed at Chernobyl have changed our understanding of how these crystals behave – and what they tell us about Earth’s past.

Have you ever wondered what is? Or how long the journey to the centre takes?

In what has been described as a 80 year holy grail mission, scientists or more specifically seismologists discovered what lies in the epicentre of Earth.

Professor Hrvoje Tkalčić head of Geophysics at ANU and Lauren Wasze, a global seismologist at James Cook University speak to Suzanne Hill about the inner layers of planet Earth.