By national regional and rural reporter Jess Davis
It's been touted as the next asbestos and compared to the cover-ups by big tobacco companies last century, but agribusiness giant Monsanto insists Roundup doesn't cause cancer.
Choosing a wine to drink can come down to a simple meteorological decision: a crisp chardonnay on a warm summer's day or a full-bodied shiraz for the winter chill. But for wine producers, the weather has a far more complex bearing on the perfect drop.
Just weeks after researchers showed a cause-and-effect relationship between ultra-processed food and weight gain, two more studies have linked these foods with disease and death. So does our current focus on fat, sugar and salt need to shift?
The gaseous exoplanet is three times the size of Earth, has a temperature of 1,000 degrees and an orbit of just 1.3 days around its star. But it shouldn't exist, astronomers say.
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.
A colony of Little Penguins on a tiny island near Sydney is given new concrete homes after a bushfire destroyed their habitat last year — its hoped the "primo real estate" will help the birds mate.
Amid international efforts to find a vaccine for the deadly pig virus, Australian authorities and industry are bracing for an outbreak that some pig farmers fear is "inevitable".
The consumer watchdog has accused Kogan of using misleading discounts to lure customers, but it happens more than you think. Ralph-Christopher Bayer shares the tricks of the trade.
Go behind the scenes with one of Australia's leading neurosurgeons as she opens a man's skull and excises a large mass lodged in his brain. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
Five-year-old Jaxson Hall's symptoms began with a full body rash and high temperatures. When his condition deteriorated and he was admitted to hospital, a flu test confirmed he had influenza-A.
Australian farmers and animal activists alike are being targeted with online threats of violence and death, an ABC investigation finds. One cyberspace expert describes it as "cyberhate" and "a new kind of workplace bullying".
Opponents of dolphin hunting in Japan continue to criticise Broome's connection to the town of Taiji, despite the true origins of the relationship that date back more than a century.
An Adelaide schoolboy, who hacked into Apple's secure computer system when he was just 13 years old, is spared a conviction and urged to use his "significant talent" for good instead of evil.
Experts are warning cattle producers and pet owners to be on the alert for ticks as unseasonably warm autumn temperatures are extending their activity.
What questions keep you up at night about climate change? Through Curious Climate, Tasmanian residents can now ask scientists and researchers everything they would like to know.
Australian aquatic ecologists say the National Carp Control Plan falls short on safety and efficacy as the deadline for advice to Federal Government approaches.
Rooftop solar industry veterans say Australia has become a dumping ground for poor-quality solar products and some are questioning the regulatory oversight of household rooftop solar installers and products.
The Raptor Refuge is a sanctuary for eagles, hawks, falcons and owls, too many of which are being killed or injured through encounters with cars, powerlines, poisons and bullets.
Makers of a 'near cure' for a deadly genetic disease have defended the cost of the drug, saying the one-off treatment is a better option than long-term alternatives.
