New funding has been opened to funnel kids into defence STEM jobs.

Despite being keen for new retail technologies, Australian consumers appear to fear and mistrust them.

Australian researchers say their tiny quantum sensor could make a big impact.

Mobile phones do not cause brain cancer, a major WHO-backed study confirms.

The Murray-Darling Basin Authority is collaborating with state governments to enhance river modelling expertise ...

A new study reveals the evolutionary history of viruses preserved in glacial ice.

Australian scientists have uncovered new details about the formation of gold in the Earth’s crust.

Australia’s new environmental watchdog could end up baring blunt teeth.

Australia is launching its $1 billion push to turbocharge local solar manufacturing.

Experts have reviewed the extreme staff turnover in remote health services.

New stats suggest Australia is facing an overdose crisis.

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For the last few weeks we have been bogged down in the very Earthly matters of royalty, budgets, politics, humanity and celebrity - all good prompts to look away, up into the infinite. 

Health authorities, politicians and scientists have been slowly introducing the world to the concept of ‘One Health’ - an all-inclusive approach to health that extends from the human body right through the global environment. 

This year’s Nobel Prizes honour discoveries that unwind our notion of truth, our understanding of ourselves and the human story, the complexities of cells and the very basics of the universe. 

XENOTRANSPLANTATION - sounds like something that would happen to an ill-fated crew member in Star Trek, but it is also a technical term for using non-human parts to treat or enhance our own bodies. 

I am Tim Hall; a red-blooded, beer-drinking, car-driving Australian male who has no interest in watching sports – at least, not the sports played by humans.

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