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In the new Disney Pixar movie Lightyear, time gets bendy. Is time travel real, or just science fiction?

Image: Disney/Pixar Spoiler alert: this article explains a key plot point, but we don’t give away anything you won’t see in trailers. At the beginning...

Is there evidence aliens have visited Earth? Here’s what’s come out of US congress hearings on ‘unidentified aerial phenomena’

Image: JIM LO SCALZO/EPA The United States Congress recently held a hearing into US government information pertaining to “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAPs). The last investigation of this kind...

Is there such a thing as the perfect alarm tone? We think so (and this is what it might sound like)

Image: Miriam Alonso Pexels With the return to office work – and no longer being able to roll out of bed and straight into a...

Explainer: what is thunder?

Image: Lightning over Adelaide airport, March 2013. Credit: Rowland Beardsell It is a dark and stormy night, and you see a spectacular flash of light...

Moths eating your clothes? It’s actually their hungry little caterpillars – here’s how to get rid of them

Image: Shutterstock Have you opened your post-lockdown wardrobe, only to discover some of your beautiful summer clothes have holes in them? You’re probably blaming clothes...

Slip, slop, slurp! The surprising science of sunscreen, sand and ice cream

Image: Shutterstock Ahh, summer at the beach! The sun on your face, sand between your toes, an ice cream in your hand. For scientists young and...

Novel teaching tech earns UniSA scientist Tall Poppy award

​A novel approach to digital data and an excellence in learning analytics has secured UniSA's Dr Vitomir Kovanović a Young Tall Poppy Science Award...

Declassified Cold War code-breaking manual has lessons for solving ‘impossible’ puzzles

  Picture: NSA The United States National Security Agency — the country’s premier signals intelligence organisation — recently declassified a Cold War-era document about code-breaking. The 1977 book, written...

New warp drive research dashes faster than light travel dreams – but reveals stranger possibilities

  Image: Shuttlestock In 1994, physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a radical technology that would allow faster than light travel: the warp drive, a hypothetical way to skirt...

From fireballs in the sky to a shark in the stars: the astronomical artistry of Segar Passi

  Picture: Elsie Passi, Author provided When Uncle Segar Passi watches the position of the setting Sun from his front patio, he notes its location and...
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Mick Pacholli

Mick created TAGG - The Alternative Gig Guide in 1979 with Helmut Katterl, the world's first real Street Magazine. He had been involved with his fathers publishing business, Toorak Times and associated publications since 1972.  Mick was also involved in Melbourne's music scene for a number of years opening venues, discovering and managing bands and providing information and support for the industry. Mick has also created a number of local festivals and is involved in not for profit and supporting local charities.