• Sarah Knapton

Artificial human life could soon be grown in a laboratory, scientists believe, after they successfully created an embryo using only stem cells for the first time.

• Marcus Strom

Claims published in Nature that the world's oldest fossils have been discovered have been challenged by leading experts in the field.

• Bridie Smith

Giant spider crabs are gathering in their thousands at Blairgowrie for an annual event so impressive it's drawn David Attenborough and a Japanese film crew to document it. But few Victorians know about it.

• Lorena Rivera León

Female research scientists are more productive than their male colleagues, are rewarded less for their scientific achievements.

• Bridie Smith

The body produces its own natural defence against HIV, scientists have found, and harnessing this under-used weapon could change the way we treat the virus and prevent it from spreading.

• Marcus Strom

You're not likely to find them at your cafe alongside your smashed avocado.

• Christian Davenport and Joel Achenbach

SpaceX said Monday that it will fly two private citizens around the moon in its Crew Dragon spacecraft next year.

• 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.

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• 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.