Anti-wind farm groups insist the turbines are making people sick, but new studies suggest a surprisingly different cause.
A preference for male lab rats in clinical trials skews new drugs towards effectiveness in men.
Researchers are edging closer to reliable gene therapy, providing a revolution in healthcare.
Australia’s chief scientist, Ian Chubb, holds the future of science and innovation in his hands. If he can make the government listen.
If a robot can be made to think like a worm, how will we define living and non-living beings?
She was fascinated by space as a child. Now Australian woman Dianne McGrath has volunteered to live out life on Mars.
Climate researchers are turning their minds to Plan B – manipulating the atmosphere to engineer a return to liveable conditions.
Cheap, small-scale satellites are being developed for commercial use and deployed in a fraction of the time it takes cautious government agencies.
Continued debate over the existence of the G spot and even vaginal orgasms reflects a lack of solid science about women’s bodies.
New research has reopened debate about the origins of oxygen, the precursor to complex organisms.
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