Carl Smith is a science journalist working for ABC’s Science Unit and Radio National. He makes audio documentaries, podcasts and written features with original photography. He’s won a Young Walkley Award for Longform Journalism and jointly won a Eureka Prize for Science Journalism. Carl’s been an ABC News cadet, a geneticist, a reporter on Behind the News, a ‘journalist in residence’ in Germany and an animated presenter on the ABC Education series Minibeast Heroes. His most recent audio series are Strange Frontiers and Pacific Scientific. He also co-writes and cohosts the ethics podcast for kids, Short & Curly.