How Saturn got its rings: a ‘recent’ smash between icy moons
For most of its history, more than four billion years, Saturn hung naked in the heavens without its famous rings.
For most of its history, more than four billion years, Saturn hung naked in the heavens without its famous rings.
Kyoto-based pharmaceutical start-up has reported successful results in laboratory experiments using mice, ferrets and dogs.
Changes to cell composition in the mouth and in the keratin layer that would take five years to manifest in smokers appeared after just six months of vape use.
India has lost contact with its Vikram lunar lander after extreme cold at the moon’s south pole apparently damaged communications equipment.
Our guts are a battleground for bacteria, good fighting bad for supremacy. Scientists have produced the most in-depth analysis of these bacteria yet and the results are surprising.
Australia will create a new nuclear medicine facility as part of a significant expansion of sovereign medicines manufacturing.
A seven-year space voyage came to its climactic end when a capsule landed in the desert in the US state of Utah.
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An Australian doctor has become the first patient in the world to receive a personalised brain cancer vaccine in what is hoped to be the new frontier in treatment for the most deadly types of tumours.
Three positive cases of the H5N1 virus were detected after reports of visibly sick birds on the islands.
The federal government has admitted Australia will have to learn with the deadly varroa parasite and find ways to manage its spread.
Former Coalition industry minister Karen Andrews has been urged by members of the space sector to convene a roundtable to address the industry’s future.
New evidence has emerged that the growing incidence of Type 2 diabetes in children is a nationwide trend.
At its lowest level for September since records began, satellite imagery shows.
SA Deputy Premier Susan Close has criticised the Albanese government’s space program cuts, amid an industry fallout over a shelved $66m Australian Space Park precinct.
About half the number of people who receive a flu shot get a Covid-19 booster. Moderna is hoping to change that by creating a superjab.
Sitting for more than 10 hours a day increases the risk of dementia, even with regular breaks to stand and walk around, research shows.
The galaxy, enclosed by halos of stardust and dark matter, is the first ever polar ring galaxy observed by Australian telescopes.
Health and government insiders believed there was not enough evidence to support the clinical use of psychedelic drugs just weeks before the approval to use them to treat mental health.
Scientists say it’s ‘mind-boggling’ that they have discovered signs on a distant planet of a gas that, on Earth, is produced only by living organisms.
Simon Birmingham has warned deep Labor cuts to the space program are putting industry, security and diplomacy at ‘huge’ risk.
Vape residue left on clothes, surfaces and interiors can cause lung conditions following physical contact, with children most at risk, says an Australian study.
Far out at sea, in the chilly waters off the coast of Alaska, sails a research vessel packed with scientists. And they are stumped.
Can plants really be grown in space? An Aussie start-up aims to prove we can do more than plant flags and play golf on the Moon.
Embassy officials were instructed to keep the White House in the dark over a secret decision to cut a $1.2bn NASA-backed satellite program, sparking concerns over Labor’s commitment to space.
It is the first time they have been able to start growing solid organs made from mostly human cells inside an animal.
Scientists have created the most realistic models of human embryos yet using stem cells, and then grown them outside the womb to the equivalent of 14 days’ development.
Only the US, Russia, China and as of last month India have successfully landed a probe on the Moon.
Tanya Plibersek has declined to act on new, high-level scientific advice a ‘priority’ endangered species will go extinct unless salmon farm impacts are reduced in a Tasmanian harbour before summer.
The largest rhino farm in the world, home to 2000 animals and located in South Africa, has been bought by NGO African Parks.
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