The stingray? Yep, Bryan Fry knows it well. He's been stung multiple times. The jagged tear of the puncture wound is nothing compared to the venom that causes mind blowing pain. But it's not the worst Australian wildlife has to offer.
There were nine winners and 11 losers in the latest Australian Research Council funding announcement.
He won a 10-week internship to NASA, now they don't want him to go home.
We are so used to bad news about climate change it is a little hard to process this.
Want to study how to live on Mars? This course will take just 12 hours of your time. And it's free. That's right, gratis.
After a long, painstaking search, the famous comet lander has been found.
Biosecurity scare exposes flaws in the handling of dangerous organisms.
Spacecom has been hit hard in the aftermath of the explosion that destroyed the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and its payload.
From bespoke architectural panels to "organic" artificial reefs, 3D printing promises to change the world.
SpaceX said there were no injuries, but that an 'anomaly' resulted in the loss of the rocket and its Israeli communications satellite payload.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who was in Kenya meeting with entrepreneurs and developers at the time, wrote in a Facebook post that he was ``deeply disappointed" by the explosion.
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.
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.
Apple's new watchOS 3 operating system contains extensive adaptations so people in wheelchairs can use its fitness tracking functions.
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.
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.
Australian scientists have uncovered the world's oldest fossils, a find that could help astrobiologists look for early signs of life on Mars.
What is it that inspires a young girl to dream of the stars?
"Strong signals", potentially linked to alien life, have been picked up by a radio telescope operating in a remote corner of Russia.
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.
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