Scientists create blended human-pig embryos in landmark experiment
Scientists hope this research will pave the way to grow fully-functioning human transplant organs inside hybrid animals.
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Marcus Strom
Marcus Strom is Science Editor at The Sydney Morning Herald.
'Set the bar higher': Professor's horror at 'feminised' HSC course
'When we reduce the quality of education that anyone receives we reduce the expectations we have of them.'
The slow death of the landline
About one-third of Australians only have a mobile - and the number is rising.
New discovery gives hope of survival for critically endangered Wollemi pine
Genome mapping in Wollemi pines gives scientists hope in fighting extinction.
If a robot driver is given a choice, who will die in a car crash?
Who will buy a driverless car programmed to kill the passengers in some circumstances?
Australian honey is at least as potent as New Zealand manuka, study finds
Potent antibacterial honey can kill superbugs like golden staph.
Weird redback sex and 14 other things we learnt in 2016 because of science
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.
Giant single-cell, brainless blob teaches by fusing with others
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.
Hidden supercluster of galaxies has been pulling the Milky Way along
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.
Fatal attraction: Black hole shreds wandering star
We now know what happens when a star wanders too close to a huge black hole.
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