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.
The $35bn National Disability Insurance Scheme would better help kids with autism if it stopped taking a ‘medicalised’ approach, says the Actuaries Institute.
Saturday’s launch of solar probe Aditya – a week after landing on the Moon – could make India the first Asian nation to achieve a solar orbit.
Carbon emission estimates for some Australian dams have been massively overestimated, new research reveals.
An undervalued part of the Australian farm could be used to reduce carbon emissions.
Our ancestors’ population fell to only 1280 ‘breeding individuals’ about 930,000 years ago, and remained this low for 117,000 years, research suggests.
Fluorescent drugs could be used to locate brain cancers and help surgeons remove them, an Australian study has found.
Cardiologist Stephen Nicholls has designed a new treatment that lowers cholesterol levels by 65 per cent in patients who previously had no possible medical treatment.
Deep diving Antarctic seals brought back new knowledge which is critical to predicting global warming,
Albatross experts are warning of ‘catastrophe’ for the threatened seabirds unless the Albanese government adequately regulates Australia’s offshore wind farms.
A second emergency zone has been designated on the southern NSW border after bee hives were discovered to be infested with varroa mites.
Scientists are examining how our bodies change as we age in the hope that it will lead to treatments that could help us live longer, healthier lives.
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It was once the realm of science fiction. Now, a brain-computer interface developed by this Aussie team promises to revolutionise and reshape the way we communicate.
Experts say there is growing evidence to suggest MRI could help earlier detection of prostate cancer, the most commonly diagnosed invasive cancer in Australia.
As secret US labs scrambled to crack the source of Covid-19, one scientist stumbled upon a fragment that led directly to the Chinese lab.
Eradicating bee-killing varroa mites in Australia is likely to be impossible after the latest infestation.
Queensland’s former chief scientist has called on the Palaszczuk government to ban all future oil and gas production in the waterways of the Lake Eyre basin, saying it would be ‘ecologically reckless’.
Australia’s new, problem-plagued $528m icebreaker can’t refuel in its home port of Hobart over fears it could slam into the Tasman Bridge.
India on Wednesday became the first nation to land a craft near the Moon’s south pole, a historic triumph for the world’s most populous nation and its ambitious, cut-price space program.
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Tension between the US and China is severing the deep ties which the two nations established in science research.
Renewed ambitions for scientific research and deep-space exploration has sent nations and private companies racing to send devices to the surface of the moon. Sticking the landing is another story.
Online pharmacies selling female ‘egg timer’ products have used misleading advertising.
As light pollution robs an ever-increasing number of humans of the primal joy of stargazing, a fledgling tourism industry is emerging, based on switching off and looking up.
The 40cm reptile has been given the scientific name Tachymenoides harrisonfordi.
Treatment for Parkinson’s, diabetes and cancer could be significantly advanced after scientists discovered a way to wipe the ‘genetic memory’ of artificially created embryonic-like stem cells.
The family of a 50-year-old man who was declared brain dead allowed researchers to implant kidneys from a genetically modified pig to restore kidney function.
Research has found an active childhood can cut your chance of getting several types of cancer by up to 40 per cent.
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