WHEN YOU LIVE IN REGIONAL AUSTRALIA, you live with science. You see it in the adaptation of animals to the climate, in the technology used on farms, and in the smart ways people ad ...

Speaking of change, it’s been a busy autumn for our newsroom as we find news ways to communicate science into the wider world. Our newsroom and its journalists celebrated the lau ...

PEOPLE SEEM TO LOVE CHANGE or to hate it – it’s a quality that most definitely lacks middle ground. We’re declaring ourselves value-neutral on the matter in introducing this ...

Images of a very “boring” star were the first sent back from NASA’s James Webb telescope, and they exceeded all hopes. Having completed the self-assembly of its 18-segment ma ...

Enormous numbers of deep-sea octopus are congregating around the base of certain seamounts, scientists say. There are so many, in fact, that a team led by James Barry of the Monter ...

Research suggests that people who grow up in grid-pattern cities are more likely to have a poor sense of direction. The study shows that people who have spent their childhoods in r ...

Researchers of synthetic biology based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US have devised a system to protect the gut microbiome from the effects of antibiot ...

01 Researchers have used a fungus called Rhizopus delemar, found on supermarket bread, to make a sustainable, biodegradable fabric that behaves exactly like leather. 02 The island ...

The Venus of Willendorf, one of the world’s oldest pieces of artwork, was made of oolite rock mined in Italy, more than 600 kilometres from her final resting place in Austria, ac ...

A team of marine microbiologists has investigated how carbon is stored and cycled through the seagrass ecosystem, with some surprising results. Research published in Nature Ecology ...