• Eric Roston
• 1 hr ago

People started wearing clothes to keep??warm.??In the summer, we don't want to be warm. We want to be cool. And that's why summer fashion??is just plain backwards.

• Irene Klotz

SpaceX said there were no injuries, but that an 'anomaly' during the static fire test resulted in the loss of the rocket and the Israeli communications satellite it had been due to carry into space at the weekend.

• Bridie Smith

You'd think researchers who encounter some of the nastiest diseases affecting Australian animals would want to destroy them pronto. But that's not the case.

• Sarah Knapton

​The first drug to combat Alzheimer's disease is on the horizon after scientists proved they can halt mental decline by clearing the sticky plaques from the brain that cause dementia.

• Bridie Smith

It's been the stuff of science fiction since it was deemed theoretically possible in the 1970s. But Sharath Sriram and his research team at RMIT have finally cracked it. They have built an artificial memory cell which could one day function as the grey matter in a bionic brain.

• Marcus Strom

Australian scientists have uncovered the world's oldest fossils, a find that could help astrobiologists look for early signs of life on Mars.

• Marcus Strom

What is it that inspires a young girl to dream of the stars?

• Bridie Smith

"Strong signals", potentially linked to alien life, have been picked up by a radio telescope operating in a remote corner of Russia.

• Henry Bodkin

Our impact on the planet has now become so significant that it has pushed us into the Anthropocene epoch, meaning that human activity is now the dominant influence on climate and the environment.

• Bridie Smith

Birdbrains they may be. But don’t underestimate the humble chook when it comes to having an ear for music. Dem birds have rhythm.

• Carl Zimmer

Lucy's death has long been a mystery. Now, after poring over the celebrated bones, a team of scientists has concluded that Lucy died most unceremoniously: from a long fall out of a tree.

• EXCLUSIVE
• Marcus Strom

It was the botanical equivalent of finding dinosaurs alive. Now the Wollemi pines face a new threat.

• Nicholas St Fleur

Neuroscientists have developed a way to turn an entire mouse, including its muscles and internal organs, transparent while illuminating the nerve paths that run throughout its body.

• Ben Gruber

NASA scientists are putting the finishing touches on a spacecraft designed to rendezvous with asteroid Bennu in 2018 to find clues about the origins of life.

• Marcus Strom

It's the nearest planet to our solar system that we will ever find. And it could have liquid water.

• Matthew Wills

If aliens exist, would they look similar to use or take a form beyond our wildest imaginings? The answer depends on how we think evolution works at the deepest level.

• John Thistleton

Seeing through a killer wasp's nest.

• Lexi Finnigan

Scientists report paralysed patients have regained feeling in their legs after training to control robotics with their brains, after a study was conducted in Brazil.

• Andrew Masterson

New research links certain colours in photographs to depression.