He promised to keep his counsel, yet our monarch has found a way to play a leading role in the UN’s big climate change conference. The King and Rishi Sunak’s environmental positions symbolise two radically distinct camps.
After centuries of cut, burn and poison, could a vaccine cure cancer? Pioneering immunologist Ralph Steinman bet his life’s work on it.
A juvenile bar-tailed godwit has flown more than 13,000km from Alaska to Australia, setting a new distance mark for a non-stop bird flight.
A team of researchers is developing a revolutionary drinking water delivery system to introduce methane-reducing additives into the diet of cattle.
Archaeologist Mike Smith’s pioneering fieldwork in Arnhem Land and Central Australia changed the way Australians understood the prehistory of their continent.
Retired schoolteacher and volunteer guide Tom Lockley has shown 20,000 visitors through the Powerhouse Museum over more than 14 years.
Yeasts and moulds found in abundance in nature and the body have been identified by the World Health Organisation as posing a growing risk.
An animal-feed additive banned in Europe to protect human health and aquatic life has been found in Australian salmon at levels concerning to experts, prompting calls for regulatory review.
Scientists may need to rewrite their understanding of how the universe has evolved since the big bang.
A parliamentary inquiry into animal testing urged the NSW government to ban forced swimming and smoke inhalation tests for research animals.
Animal lovers could be allowed to keep native species as pets without a licence in NSW under major reforms being considered by the state government.
By popular demand, the James Webb Space Telescope has captured the iconic Pillars of Creation, revealing many new stars forming.
A new virus with an 80 per cent fatality rate, made in a Boston Uni lab combining the original strain of Sars-Cov2 with Omicron, prompts a probe.
Almost 1600 people died in Australia last year as a result of alcohol consumption – the highest figure in a decade – as fears grow that the pandemic has accelerated a trend of risky drinking.
The new Union for International Cancer Control president is battling a rare disease known as mantle cell lymphoma.
The medicines regulator is facing calls to withdraw its provisional approval for the antiviral drug molnupiravir amid concerns at mounting evidence it is ineffective.
Researchers are developing hi-tech chopsticks that trick eaters; forks and spoons are next.
The couple behind one of the most successful Covid-19 jabs believe a breakthrough is in our grasp.
New research shows that women suffer from sleeplessness much more than men
In a long-awaited announcement, the Bureau of Meteorology has revealed when Australians will be able to soak up the sun again.
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Australian scientists have demonstrated medicines can be successfully delivered directly into the brain using focused ultrasound.
Beijing’s enormous appetite for resources and growing global reach have become an ecologically significant danger.
Sydney has broken its record for highest annual rainfall with almost four months left in the year, with the BOM warning more rain and flooding are in store.
The Nobel Chemistry Prize was awarded to three scientists on Wednesday for their work on click chemistry, a way to snap molecules together like Lego that experts say will soon ‘change the world’.
A SpaceX rocket carrying Russian engineer Anna Kikina and two American astronauts blasted off from Florida on a voyage that carries significant symbolism as war rages in Ukraine.
The three months from June-August were the hottest in Europe since records began.
The Nobel Prize for Chemistry was on Wednesday awarded to a trio of chemists from the US and Denmark who laid the foundation for a more functional form of chemistry.
GPs will be able to prescribe controlled stimulant medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder under a proposed shake-up by ADHD health experts.
A trio of physicists win the Nobel Prize for discoveries that have paved the way for quantum computers, networks and secure encrypted communication.
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