CSIRO's gravitation waves contribution came from unit now axed

Peter Hannam   CSIRO executives are being accused of claiming credit for achievements of a science unit it has recently axed, amid on-going job cuts at the agency.

Heritage Strategy launched at ACT's newest heritage site Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station

Clare Colley   Almost 49 years since its antenna beamed the first TV images of the moon landing, and 24 years after the site was levelled, the Honeysuckle Creek tracking station has been added to the ACT's heritage register.

How a group of Canberra scientists helped to prove what Einstein couldn't

Katie Burgess   How a group of Canberra scientists helped to prove Einstein wrong.

Gravitational waves: Australian scientists central role in their discovery

Marcus Strom   This discovery means we can see the universe with a totally new sense. We have been limited with one view of the universe, using our eyes, looking at light. It's now like being able to hear the universe for the first time.

Researchers give type 1 diabetics new hope

Bridie Smith   Researchers have worked out what makes the body attack its insulin-producing cells, causing type 1 diabetes.

Gravitational waves: what do they sound like and why are scientists going nuts with #ChirpForLIGO

Marcus Strom   Gravitational waves not only make "noise", it has created its own hashtag.

Albert Einstein was right - 100 years on

Marcus Strom   An overnight announcement confirms the existence of Einstein's predicted gravitational waves.

Fuzzy Logic: Getting an earful of yourself

Question: Why does our own voice sound different?

Gravitational waves discovery would open up new world of science

Marcus Strom   Scientists across the world are giddy with the prospect that the final piece in the puzzle emerging from Einstein's theory of general relativity will fall into place on Friday.

Gravitational waves: an explainer

Marcus Strom   Every single one of Albert Einstein's prediction about space-time have been observed, except one: gravitational waves.

Why sex matters in science

Bridie Smith   Female participation in scientific research needs to increase dramatically, if discoveries are to benefit all of humanity. It's a familiar theme. But this time, there's a twist.

Science

Revealed: the Nullarbor Plain's wet and forested beginnings

The Nullarbor was once cloaked in gums and banksias and enjoyed a rainfall much higher than today.

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Virtual reality gamers scale the mountain

Alexandra Back   An exciting new virtual-reality game due out in stores soon is the brainchild of four whiz-kids working out of a loungeroom in Canberra.

Why do we listen to music? The search for the brain's music room

Natalie Angier   It's one of humanity's greatest pleasures and has been with us since the beginning. Now scientists are starting to discover what part of our brain connects to music.

Astronomy

Astronomers discover nearly a thousand hidden galaxies behind the Milky Way

You would think it was pretty hard to hide a galaxy, but nearly a thousand of them?

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Meteorite may have killed someone for the first time in two centuries

Ishaan Tharoor   Local authorities in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu are investigating whether the death of a man at a college campus over the weekend was the result of a falling meteorite.

Human trials for Australian-made bionic spine to start next year

Bridie Smith   Patients left paralysed by injury or illness could be back on their feet again, thanks to a breakthrough by Melbourne researchers who have designed a revolutionary bionic spine.