A healthy mixture of early birds, night owls and wakeful elderly people may have evolved as a clever way of protecting the community from wild beasts and dangerous environments during the night, a US study has found.
New research suggests that survival of any life on Mars — much less potatoes and potato-growing humans — might be more difficult than we thought. I blame Matt Damon.
It was the sort of photo that screamed 'caption competition', and the internet was happy to oblige.
A coal baron is delivering the world's first solar train to Australia.
A common weed killer is making toad tadpoles "beef up" their weaponry, a study has found.
Artificial intelligence is making its way into the global sex market, bringing with it a revolution in robotic "sex tech".
A rack of human skulls that towered over one corner of an Aztec temple terrified the Spanish conquistadors.
"Are you sure Australia is completely rational?" asks Neil deGrasse Tyson, one of the world's best-known astrophysicists.Â
Sydney Observatory wants a park dedicated to the night sky.
"It's turned out to be one of the best sauropod skeletons I've ever seen in the whole country."
Spiky bursts of plasma called spicules swirl around the surface of the sun. Millions erupt every moment, spurting solar material some 6,000 miles high at speeds of about 60 miles per second.
Why bird eggs have so many different shapes has interested scientists, mathematicians and even famous philosophers for centuries - but a new report claims to have made a breakthrough.
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.
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