In 2014, Russian criminals turned the tables on American casinos when they worked out how to beat the poker machines — thanks to Putin and mathematics.
Scientists are constantly getting more inventive in the war against invasive pests. But should the public be consulted before new solutions are rolled out?
UWA researchers develop a new, more efficient way of absorbing dangerous gases into material and storing it there, in a method they liken to using kitty litter.
By Jonathan Roberts, Queensland University of Technology
NASA says there are 10 "potentially hazardous" asteroids close to Earth. Good reason to make sure we have a backup plan should any catastrophic event wipe out of much of life on Earth.
Bumps, scrapes and even broken bones are a common feature of many children's lives, but child health experts are concerned that the number of child injuries is not falling.
The future of plants in New South Wales lies in a vault at the Australian Botanic Garden, where millions of seedlings are stored for future regeneration.
A drug commonly prescribed for rheumatoid arthritis and is not yet legal in Australia for perispinal injection has been found to be useful and only available in Florida.
Disgruntled shareholders accuse a Brisbane-based firm that has been touting new fracking technology of destroying millions in shareholder value without producing any income.
As Central Australia's deserts increasingly resemble graveyards for small animals, scientists are giving them a helping hand by building them predator-proof homes.
When wattle flowers start to bloom and the heads of spear grass begin to drop, Aboriginal communities across the Top End know it's time for the annual harvest of sea bird eggs.
Renowned primatologist Dr Jane Goodall, known for her work studying and living with wild chimpanzee tribes, tells Perth students the future of the world's endangered animals is in their hands.
Researchers questioned whether a parasite discovered in carp in the New South Wales Riverina could target native fish when carp are removed after the release of the herpes virus.
Scientists in Myanmar discover what they describe as the "most complete" fossil of a baby bird ever recovered from the Cretaceous period, trapped in amber.
A newly created institute between the state of California and China's Tsinghua University is planning to push ahead on climate change policies in spite of US President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Paris agreement last week.
Wally Ballard almost died after he had a stroke and was hit with a rare neurological condition called locked-in syndrome, but doctors removed his clot and Mr Ballard has staged a remarkable recovery.
A study presented to the American Astronomical Society argues the Milky Way exists in a huge celestial void, which may explain previous difficulties in estimating the rate of universe expansion.
An extra vaccine could stop Indigenous children from getting chronic ear infections that start within weeks of birth and affect 90 per cent of toddlers in remote communities, researchers say.
Astronomers use the gravitational warping of light, predicted by Einstein nearly a century ago, to measure the mass of a distant star as it passed in front of another star — an event Einstein himself thought would be impossible to directly observe.
Imagine waking on up on the operating table: aware of voices, movement and pain, but unable to move. Referred to as accidental awareness by anaesthetists, it's a rare experience — but it does happen.