• Bridie Smith

Looking for help to break the cycle of overeating and under-exercising? Scientists say we need look no further than the brain of the humble roundworm.

• Eamonn Tiernan

Canberra man Paul Jenkins is breaking ground for paraplegics across Australia trialling a new exoskeleton device.

• Marcus Strom

CSIRO staff cite redundancies as part of the reason they failed to carry out study.

• Bridie Smith

Human activity heats up cities to such an extent that on the weekends when we're having a sleep-in, the centre of town is measurably cooler.

• Marcus Strom

The Burrup Peninsula has the world's largest collection of indigenous rock art. It's also home to natural gas and fertiliser production facilities.

• Bridie Smith

There is a new star in our midst. And the only reason we know it is there, is because a 15-year-old Caulfield schoolboy found it.

Quinoa, the sacred "mother grain" of the ancient Inca civilisation suppressed by Spanish conquistadors, could become an increasingly important food source thanks to genetic secrets revealed in a new study.

• Cameron Atfield

Black holes are not necessarily as big – or as small – as astronomers previously thought.

• Marcus Strom

His name has been used to classify a beautiful dragonfly, an extinct marsupial lion, a ghost shrimp from Madagascar and a carnivorous pitcher plant.

• Marcus Strom

Australia's Chief Scientist Dr Alan Finkel has said US President Donald Trump's move to censor environmental data is 'reminiscent' of former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's control of science in the USSR.

• Dr Biplob Ray

Wi-Fi technology is often spoken about in a whole heap of numbers and scientific jargon. Dr Biplob Ray makes sense of it all.

• Naomi Neilson

As the temperature soars to new heights, experts are working towards preparing useful technologies that will warn sun baskers when it's time to seek shade. 

• Will Dunham

Scientists believe a tiny marine creature from China that wriggled in the seabed mud about 540 million years ago may be the earliest-known animal in the lengthy evolutionary path that eventually led to humans.

• Andrew Masterson

People who are dogmatic and stubborn about whether Firefox or Chrome works best for them might be closet climate change sceptics, according to new research.

• Bridie Smith

Sharks have hogged the spotlight this summer. But what about the smaller creatures that inhabit our waters. Fish that can go from being female to male or sea cucumbers that can reorganise the position of their vital organs before splitting in two. They all live in Australian waters: in our bays, harbours and deep oceans.

• Marcus Strom

Scientists hope this research will pave the way to grow fully-functioning human transplant organs inside hybrid animals.

• Natalie Angier

The world's first transgenic ants offer scientists the chance to explore the evolution of animal societies - and, perhaps, our own.

• Marcus Strom

'When we reduce the quality of education that anyone receives we reduce the expectations we have of them.'

• Steven Trask

The inspiration for the latest breakthrough by these ANU physicists came in a desperate message from Princess Leia.