A type of beech tree that lived in South America 52 million years ago now grows in New Guinea and South-East Asia after having hitched a ride on an Australian "life raft", argue researchers.
Astrophysicists discover a giant ridge of plasma emitting radio waves that connects two galaxy clusters 10 million light years apart, providing the first direct evidence of magnetic fields between galaxy clusters.
What do pregnancy, the Tour de France and polar trekking have in common? They all push participants toward the same limitof human endurance, according to a new study.
After the launch of its Australia-first drone delivery business in Canberra, Google has sole ownership over airspace that can not be operated in by more than one drone service.
Amazon announces new drones to deliver packages in less than 30 minutes as well as a new app — dubbed "Shazam for clothes" after the popular music-identifying app — that can identify clothing styles.
A peculiar ladybird bloom, believed to be more than 100 kilometres wide, takes meteorologists by surprise after surfacing on the National Weather Service's radar over southern California.
China successfully launched a rocket from a ship at sea for the first time, the latest step in its ambitious plan to become a major space power by 2030.
Had Bob Foster ignored his gut instinct when he was mining in the 1980s, the world might never have known about a new species of dinosaur and the first dinosaur herd to be discovered in Australia.
If you think you might be suffering burnout, it's worth asking yourself these four questions, as the World Health Organisation reclassifies burnout as an "occupational phenomenon".
A self-funded entrepreneur has failed in his attempt to become the first Singaporean to reach the edge of space after launching his capsule from the Australian outback.
An Adelaide high school principal experiences brain surgery while awake to help combat his young onset Parkinson's disease, after he was diagnosed at 35 years of age.
The long-term project will look at who is most at risk of the condition and how they can potentially "self-manage" risk behaviours to build resilience to dementia using diet, exercise, improving social contact or pursuing further education.
It's home to as much biodiversity as the Great Barrier Reef, but this remote area of Western Australia has been largely a mystery to scientists, until now.
Horse hair from convict-built walls in Tasmania is among the remains from colonial Australia being scrutinised to tell the story of how the animals were used and where they came from.
A koala joey, only months old, is defying the odds after being rescued when her mother was hit by a car in Port Macquarie on the NSW mid-north coast. Pixie is now in home care and being carried in a makeshift pouch 24 hours a day.
In the 1960s a US sports institute began promoting the idea of using supernatural powers to achieve athletic greatness. Some ideas were "bonkers", others are still used in sport today.
In the shadow of mass fish kills at the start of the year, residents of Menindee in NSW are now worried for the rich and rare birdlife that relies on the area to breed.
Amanda Pernechele and her sister Jess Smith face a very real risk of developing cancer, and they're taking to social media in the hope of influencing young women to nip cancer in the bud.
A final decision is yet to be made over whether a strain of the herpes virus will be released to control carp numbers in the Murray-Darling, as irrigators utilise a matured water market to help them negotiate low allocations.
Smoking rates have dropped massively since the 70s — down from 40 per cent to only 14 per cent — but some areas of the country are not getting the message.
The anti-vaccination movement has been around since Edward Jenner scraped pus from the skin of sick cows. Here's what's driven the sentiment over the last two centuries.