With a career spanning six decades you’d think David Attenborough might start taking it easy. Then he goes and captures a new species of lizard on film for the first time ever and casually raises the bar for everyone. Again.

The Kraken. It devoured men, ships and whales and could be mistaken for an island. Or so we thought, until scientists finally caught one on film. Here's the story of how they did it.

Since time immemorial humanity has looked up at the night sky in wonder and awe, pondering how we might one day be able to call the Moon our own...

Dr Andrew Parker once solved a prehistoric mystery in one fell swoop – and it all had to do with an eyeball. Now, according to the author and biologist, it's time industry caught up. 

3D printers may still be a hobbyhorse flogged by a fringe group of technologists, design enthusiasts and the odd architect, but soon there will probably be one in every household.

Putting a man on the moon is easy. Keeping him alive is the hard part – particularly when he’s speeding around up there on a glorified dune buggy.

What’s black and white, looks like dirt but also cleans basically everything it touches? Charcoal. Apparently. 

Some people have got napping down to a fine art. Scientists have got it down to a fine, well, science.

Since 2006, TED conferences have been making the internet so much smarter. Now its besuited orators are coming to Australia for TEDxSydney 2013, and Smith is very proud to be an event partner.

They might not look like much on the ground but these calibration targets are basically eye charts for airplanes.