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Sleep is at least as important as diet and exercise for good health and longevity.

Waking up tired? Here’s how to hack your snooze button

Snoozing has a bad rap. Here are science-backed tips to supercharge your morning energy.

  • Angus Dalton

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Putricia the corpse flower’s pollen germinating with plant ovary-seeking tubes through a microscope.

Behind the scenes at the Botanic Garden, it’s more zoo than greenhouse

Secret doors, smoke plumes, air locks, a million species and shipwrecked treasures: this world-renowned Sydney establishment could be the most biodiverse spot in the country.

  • Angus Dalton
The Plasrefine recycling facility was planned for construction next to a critical medical research mouse-breeding facility.

Fear of thousands of cannibal mice helped sink a huge NSW recycling plant

Australia’s largest recycling plant was set to be built next to a crucial medical facility – and the potential impacts were dire.

  • Angus Dalton
Any attempts to create “mirror life” should be stopped, according to the scientists who were trying to create it.

Scientists slam brakes on research that could lead to the perfect bioweapon

Potentially catastrophic risks to life as we know it have prompted dozens of eminent scientists to hit the brakes on their research.

  • Angus Dalton
The newly opened Moderna Technology Centre at Monash University in Clayton, Melbourne.

‘We don’t have a Team Australia approach’: Vaccine facility rejects plea for help

A request by NSW to access a taxpayer-funded Moderna mRNA facility was knocked back, raising more questions about how much value Australia is getting from the facility.

  • Liam Mannix and Paul Sakkal
With matching double degrees in mechatronics and engineering, the 25-year-olds turn heads as they help design and build the Scitech Discovery Centre displays that engage minds young and old in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Formula one, two: Meet the Perth twins driving the next generation in STEM

With matching double degrees in mechatronics and engineering, the 25-year-olds turn heads with their Scitech Discovery Centre designs – including a rac car that hits 100km/h in four seconds.

  • Claire Ottaviano
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A road in Noto peninsula, facing the Sea of Japan, north-west of Tokyo after an earthquake in January 2024.

Scientists know where the big earthquakes will hit. They just don’t know when

A lurch in the Earth’s tectonic plates can wreak havoc at any time – as we’ve just seen in Vanuatu. How do scientists measure quakes, and are we doing enough to prepare?

  • Sherryn Groch
The science of DNA, new Scitech displays inspire young minds.

New science displays delight curious minds ahead of school holidays

New exhibition to show young minds they don’t have to go beyond WA to have a meaningful career in STEM.

  • Claire Ottaviano
Government auditors have savaged the government’s top research agency’s lax approach to scientific misconduct and fraud in an audit that could lead to a major shakeup of the way bad science is policed.

Dodgy science in crosshairs as fraud audit censures Australia’s top research agency

The National Health and Medical Research Council has been criticised over its lax approach to scientific misconduct in an audit that lays the groundwork for changes in the way bad science is policed.

  • Liam Mannix
Paramedic Kelsey Hibberd is helping raise funds to fight heart disease.

Paramedic Kelsey lost her dad to a heart attack. She now hopes for ‘exercise in a pill’ to save lives

Ground-breaking Australian research is aimed at developing medication that can mimic the benefits of exercise on the heart and help prevent sudden cardiac death.

  • Wendy Tuohy

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