Russian space cargo ship breaks up
An unmanned Russian cargo ship loaded with more than 2.5 tonnes of food and supplies for the International Space Station has broken apart about six minutes after lift-off, Russia's space agency Roscosmos says.
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Martin Shkreli congratulates Sydney Grammar students in YouTube video
Martin Shkreli, the pharmaceutical executive nicknamed "big pharma bro", has congratulated a group of Australian high school students who managed to cook a drug in their school laboaratory that his company sells for more than $1000 a tablet.
Oh, hello, oganesson: Four new elements on periodic table now have names
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, the century-old organisation charged with maintaining the periodic table, finally announced it had approved the names of four new elements.
Halo summer! Ring round the sun is a solar sell of warmer days to come
As if to assure warmth-deprived Melburnians that it's still up there and on duty, the sun put on a spectacular sky show to mark the first day of summer on Thursday.
Martin Shkreli responds after Sydney Grammar boys make Daraprim
Reports that Sydney schoolboys made a drug that his company charges at $US750 a tablet draw comments on social media.
The Sydney schoolboys taking on the 'most hated man in the world'
He outraged the world by hiking the price of an essential drug by more than 5000 per cent.
Platypus and echidna venom could inspire new diabetes medications
Venom from two iconic Australian species could be behind the development of new treatments for diabetes, which affects around 1.7 million Australians.
How bottom feeding helped Alfred prince of whales grow so big and blue
Scientists have found out how the blue whales rose to become the biggest beasts the Earth has seen – and it's all down to their teeth.
Fears Melbourne's 'sacred botanical site' could shrink, taking a slice of history with it
One of Melbourne's oldest gardens which was laid out when the colony of Victoria was just two years young is under threat from building works, which could swallow up about 10 per cent of the remaining grounds.
The Australian outfit set to make millions in China
The deal will allow the company to bid for business in the burgeoning Chinese market using Australian-designed technology.
Evidence of water found a third of the way to Earth's core
Water ions trapped in a diamond show an ocean's worth of water sits deep in the Earth.
Building set to start on Australia's first cryonics lab
The company proposing Australia's first cryonics lab has gained approval to build in Holbrook, southern NSW, and plan to begin freezing and stories bodies next year.
WWI antiseptic could fight common cold - and tackle superbugs
A century-old antiseptic made from coal tar and used to treat wounds and sleeping sickness in World War I Australian soldiers has been found to help the body fight off viral infections, including the common cold.
Shazam for mosquitoes
Smartphones may be the new tool in fighting mosquito-borne diseases.
The mozzies multiplying at the bottom of our gardens
Melburnians complaining about the swarms of mosquitoes this spring need to take a good hard look at themselves. Or more specifically, at their back gardens.
The secret sex lives of mosquitofish
Strictly speaking a gonopodium is not a penis. However, the larger this male reproductive organ is in one fish species leads to bigger brains in females.
This rocket engine breaks a law of physics. But a NASA test says it works anyway
NASA scientists have been daydreaming about a new kind of rocket engine that could carry astronauts to Mars in 70 days without burning any fuel. Now, in a new paper published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Propulsion and Power, they say that it might really work.
Great balls of fire: WA scientists find freshly fallen meteorite
Members of Curtin University's Desert Fireball Network (DFN) team have successfully tracked and recovered a freshly fallen meteorite from a Western Australian farm near Morawa, several hundred kilometres north-east of Perth.
Even if cryonics works, it may wipe out memories: facility's president
The organisation that froze a 14-year-old British cancer victim concedes that the odds of revival are no more than 50-50.
11 mosquito fixes that don't really work - and the one that saved the Queen
It was an Australian invention developed in war-time conditions that allowed Queen Elizabeth II to tour insect-free in '63. While the royal link that brought insect repellent to the masses is true, not all mozzie management techniques stack up. Here are some hits - and misses.