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Giant flying turkeys once roamed Australia, Flinders University research confirms
A giant, kangaroo-sized flying turkey roamed Australia more than two million years ago.
A giant, kangaroo-sized flying turkey roamed Australia more than two million years ago.
How much does a dead star weigh? That's a question now with at least one solid answer – thanks to an experiment first suggested by Albert Einstein a century ago.
The story of humanity has been extended at least 100 millennia with this latest finding.
In the past few decades, artists erroneously drew ferocious and fluffy concept versions of T. rex.
Carbon dioxide emissions from Sydney Harbour have been measured for the first time.
Central to the exhibition is solving a crime, a murder no less.
Hundreds of "superbly scientific" artworks have been acquired by the State Library of Victoria, completing one of the most significant collections of early Australian botany.
Latest discovery shows gravitational-wave astronomy has arrived as a new window on the universe.
Space junk is putting A$900 billion worth of satellites and space infrastructure at risk.
Revealing rare species' habitat through scientific papers is making it easier for poachers to target them.
CSIRO scientists are looking at using the way we walk as authentication on our devices and to improve battery life.
NASA's Juno mission reveals the planet is much more complex than we imagined.
The end of the epic Cassini mission is nigh.
After this 'enormous success', scientists are closer to discovering what in the brain accounts for intelligence.
Reintroducing dingoes to areas from where humans have removed them could help control the feral red fox  that hunts native animals such as the bilby and wallaby.
A team led by ANU has discovered the mysterious source of antimatter in the Milky Way.
Australian astronomers have discovered an object six to eight billion light years away that - in about a millisecond - ejected the same amount of energy that our sun releases in 2½ years.
What do the 21 new Australian Academy of Science fellows have in common?
The Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney is embarking on a four-year program that it says will revolutionise land restoration.
Street smarts are the key to boosting the wild population of Tasmanian devils, scientists say.
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