The future of a government funding program which has assisted teams developing artificial hearts and turning spider venom into drug therapies is in doubt.
We put the natural world under a microscope,from rogue waves and zombie fungus to colliding atoms and meteors.
An Australian scientist is on a life-saving mission with a cryogenic collection of animal cells frozen at minus 196 degrees.
Chinese scientists injected a monkey embryo with stem cells from another crab-eating macaque,with extraordinary results.
Mummified mice found on mountain summits on the Chile-Argentina border have re-defined what we know about the limits of mammals – and they may help the search for life on other planets.
We’re in the thick of swooping season – here’s how busting magpie myths can help you avoid the suburban stealth bombers.
The 87-year-old Canadian geneticist,environmentalist and academic on his proudest achievements – and what he wants to be able to tell his grandchildren.
The creatures,which have a lifespan measured in days,died in the lab – but not before they had reproduced another several generations,researchers said.
Merlin Sheldrake spreads the word about the miraculous fungal network - and why we’d be lost without it.
Werribee Secondary College student Alex Park is headed to Dubai for the International Biology Olympiad. To prepare,he’s been testing milk.
This little bug has major fashion sense,evolving stylish appendages to match its chosen habitat and,perhaps,triumph over its competitors in love and war.