While various pundits have claimed we are living in a post-fact and post-truth world, those slaves to reality - scientists - have been busy discovering facts and explaining the world for anyone who cared to listen.
After decades of listening, the first effort to send powerful, repeated and intentional messages into space, targeting the same stars over months or years.
It's not an animal, nor a plant or even a fungus, but it can learn and pass on the information to other brainless blobs.
Astronomers have found a supercluster of galaxies that might just provide the missing piece of puzzle explaining why the Milky Way travels the universe the way it does.
Wednesday will mark Australia's longest day of the year, the summer solstice.
Queensland fisheries officers could follow the lead of the state's police in introducing body-worn cameras to collect evidence against unlawful anglers.
Scientists in California are trying to get time to run backwards, biological time, that is.
Next time you're lying on the beach soaking up the rays, spare a thought for the sun-loving algae hiding in the sand grains beneath you.
Stargazers will get yet another opportunity to watch a spectacular full moon rise over the horizon on Tuesday night, when the last of three consecutive supermoons of 2016 makes a stunning appearance.
We now know what happens when a star wanders too close to a huge black hole.
A Brisbane researcher has taken inspiration from flies to try and improve the efficiency of solar panels.
We have lift-off!
In the past 18 months alone, three new species of dinosaur have been identified in Australia.
One huge hurdle to scientists searching for life in other solar systems has been the difficulty of gaining a clear view of planets through the intense brightness of suns.
A 99-million-year-old dinosaur tail has been found trapped in a piece of amber at a market in northern Myanmar, near the Chinese border.
The exhibition is the closest experience possible to visiting the famous site.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft sent back more jaw-dropping photos of Saturn this week.
Night-vision goggles almost as simple as a pair of sunnies might not be too far away.
The space debris, which is falling constantly through the atmosphere, has previously only been found in Antarctica and the deep ocean.
In heartbreaking news for those fond of a tipple, researchers have found that moderate drinking of alcohol increases the risk of having an irregular heartbeat.
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