• Bridie Smith

Researchers have identified genetic clues which could reveal a person's risk of going blind.

• Bridie Smith

Restricting the amount of greenery growing beside the state's waterways will have a detrimental effect on the environment while failing to meet its goal of reducing bushfire threats, top waterway ecosystem scientists have warned.

• Marcus Strom

Seven planets have been found in the "goldilocks zone" of a star that will live for 10 trillion years.

• Marcus Strom

Australian men have been knocked off the top spot for world life expectancy, a new report published on Wednesday in The Lancet, has shown.

• Eric Scerri

Rather than a hyper-intellectual, alien activity practiced by a remote priesthood, science is hit and miss, the ever-changing product of less-than-brilliant people, just like every other human activity.

• Sarah Knapton

A NASA researcher has grown bacteria that survived thousands of years inside crystals.

• Chris Mooney

Hundreds of scientists, environmental advocates and their supporters have rallied in Boston to protest what they see as increasing threats to science and research in the US.

• EXCLUSIVE
• Bridie Smith

Research suggest moderately overweight people with type-2 diabetes can benefit from the surgery.

• Adam Morton

As parts of Australia set heatwave records and the government considered building new coal-fired power stations, the vast continent to the south last week quietly marked a milestone.

• Marcus Strom

A Senate hearing has been was told that the CSIRO should withdraw its recommended maximum acid emission levels for rock art on the Burrup Peninsula.

• Marcus Strom

Scientists have for the first time clearly defined Zealandia, a continent that sits to the east of Australia.

• Sarah Knapton

Boston: Woolly mammoths - or, at least, animals with very similar DNA - could be brought back from extinction within two years, say scientists behind a ground-breaking resurrection project.

• COMMENT
• Monica Grady

The combination of hot water and this specific organic material is extremely exciting.

• Marcus Strom

Something is lurking out there but astronomers don't know what it is.

• Claudia Long

A group of archaeology students from ANU who helped historians in their efforts to document the history of the Székely people in Romania will travel to the US next month to present their findings.

• Bridie Smith

Scientists have discovered an unexpected but mutually beneficial relationship between a galaxy and the supermassive black hole that sits at its heart.

• Owen Gaffney and Will Steffen

In our recent study, we wanted to find the simplest way to mathematically describe the difference between how the planet once functioned and how it now functions.

• Marcus Strom

Successive governments have failed to register the Burrup on UNESCO's World Heritage list.

• 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.