• Marcus Strom

New research into the "hobbit" fossils of now extinct metre-tall humanoids discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores has found they most likely evolved from an ancient African ancestor and not from the taller Homo erectus found on Java, as widely believed.

• Marcus Strom

A list of scientific luminaries and their supporters have signed a letter in support of international scientific endeavour on the eve of the Global March for Science on Saturday.

• Georgina Connery

It's an unassuming pantry item that's helping scientists better understand Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and type two diabetes.

• Marcus Strom

A huge asteroid will sail past Earth on Thursday, reminding us that the universe is a dynamic and dangerous place.

• Marcus Strom

Australia has returned to space with the successful launch from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday morning of three locally designed and built research satellites bound for the International Space Station.

• Ben Guarino

Unlike with other shipworms, named because they ate their way into the sides of wooden boats, no one knew where the giant shipworm lived.

• Donald McNeil jnr

Biochemists' discovery sounds like something out of a fairy tale.

• Marcus Strom

A public health advocate has slammed the organisation for its refusal to endorse March for Science rallies in Australia.

• Marcus Strom

Almost half of the complaints received were for proposed wind farms that are not yet in operation.

• Sarah Kaplan

​The geysers of Saturn's moon Enceladus are gushing up food for life, scientists say.

• Marcus Strom

It's not every day you get to sit down with a bloke who is tipped as "guaranteed" to win the Nobel Prize for physics this year.

• Kim Arlington

The purebred desert dingo took first place in the World's Most Interesting Genome Competition.

Apple has hired a team of biomedical engineers as part of a secret initiative, initially envisioned by late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, to develop sensors to treat diabetes, CNBC reports citing three people familiar with the matter.

Much like human soldiers in combat, members of a large, black, termite-eating ant species found in sub-Saharan Africa march in formation into battle and afterward retrieve wounded comrades.

• Marcus Strom

The discovery of an Earth-sized planet outside our solar system that has its own atmosphere marks an important step in our understanding of the potential for life on other worlds.

• Mark Bergen

First fact-checking came to Facebook. Now it's coming to Google.

• Chris Johnston

Television is wedding shows, dating shows and food shows, right? In what must be a historic first, Stargazing Live discovered a new solar system.

• Bridie Smith

Descendants of the creator of a beautiful and rare 'seaweed album' may be living in Melbourne or Sydney. If they are, the National Museum in Canberra wants to hear from them.

• Tony Moore

Scientists discover that luring amorous starfish with their "perfume" may be the most efficient way to remove them from the Great Barrier Reef.