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Flat battery woes for an Australian space project
Australia has made its first successful foray into space in 15 years with the launch of the INSPIRE-2.
Australia has made its first successful foray into space in 15 years with the launch of the INSPIRE-2.
Humans are overdue for a return trip to the moon, Stephen Hawking has just opined.
How to stack oranges: it's something that every greengrocer knows but it has eluded some of the greatest minds in mathematics.
The world's biggest and most expensive time machine is running again, but a cloud is hanging over the physics community.
Australian scientists discover it takes a few years for children to out-think our hairier cousins.
Getting jabbed with tiny needles can be as effective as taking painkillers when it comes to treating back pain or a sprained ankle.
A plate of glowing red bacteria holds the key to taking the first step in finding a new cure for the biggest infectious killer in the world.
The Bug Lab exhibition, which opens in Melbourne on June 23, shows off the skills that insects and spiders use every day, from mind control to swarm intelligence and precision flight. Even the "bugnostic" will be swayed.
Scientists have plucked some unknown species from depths of the abyss off Australia's east coast.
Making clean fuel out of sunshine and thin air?
China has "set the standard" for the world to aspire to.
Attention, denizens of Tinder: cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths has a name for your dating life.
Scientists say they've cracked the code on why reptiles change sex under the stress of extreme temperatures.
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.
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