Researchers have observed for the first time how villainous cancer cells attack and destroy the bone of leukaemia patients using a new "street view' system to zoom in and spy on the invaders.
After re-examining data acquired by the Voyager 2 spacecraft, astronomers have detected wavy patterns in two of Uranus's dark system of rings — patterns that may be indicative of two undiscovered moons.
Australian researchers have discovered that peptides contained in the milk of Tasmanian devils can kill some of the most deadly bacterial and fungal infections, including golden staph.
Scientists believe a comet hitting the Earth caused global warming 55.6 million years ago, an event that can help us understand climate change today.
NBN Co's second satellite has been successfully deployed and will soon begin providing broadband services to tens of thousands of homes and businesses in rural and remote Australia.
On August 4, 1997, Jeanne Calment passed away in a nursing home in France. The Reaper comes for us all, of course, but he was in no hurry for Calment. She died at age 122, setting a record for human longevity.
Nobel committee compares three scientists' breakthroughs to the invention of the first crude electric motors.
Harvard University researchers have used a metre-long petri dish to show the frightening speed at which bacteria can evolve and develop resistance to modern antibiotics.
Discoveries boosted research in condensed matter physics and raised hopes for uses in new generations of electronics and superconductors or future quantum computers.
When ANU researchers stumbled upon skeletal remains at the oldest known cemetery of the Pacific Island Lapita culture, they did not expect it to solve a centuries-long debate.
The European Space Agency said the Rosetta spacecraft has crash-landed on a comet after an historic 12 years spent chasing it across more than 6 billion kilometres of space.
Toyota's concept cars might end up being born into a driverless world.
The potential benefits of a double-barrelled penis - for a fly anyway.
A Sydney rocket scientist has just signed a deal to test his ion drive in space.
The future of air safety could lie in the example of Drongo, Nemo and Titan.
It could be an intriguing step on the hunt for alien life on Jupiter's ocean-covered moon.
Physicists at The Australian National University have brought quantum computing a step closer to reality by stopping light in a new experiment.
World's largest single-dish radio telescope, in a majestic but impoverished part of china, looks deep into the universe.
Why small earthquakes stay small, while others grow into monsters is one of the most enduring mysteries in earthquake science but we now have a partial, but tantalising answer: The moon and big tides.
The accolades are given for studies and findings that "make people laugh, and then think."
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