Australian scientists have discovered the most luminous object in existence – and the fastest-growing black hole.
Scientists across the globe have tried and failed to translate treatments for motor neurone disease from mice to humans. A Sydney team is aiming to be the first.
Dr Richard Jones faced a dilemma:hunker down in the Antarctic wilderness or make a run for it?
The Spalding’s Rocket Frog has been recorded by one of the world’s largest citizen science projects,which has now hit one million amphibians and counting.
Australian scientists have cloned bowel cancer tumours outside patients’ bodies,allowing them to identify good treatments and rule out drugs that wouldn’t work.
Cases of flesh-eating Buruli ulcers are rising and cases have spread from coastal Victoria to NSW. Researchers have finally figured out what spreads the disease.
Millions of us are insomniacs or experience sleeplessness a few times a week. A recent study sheds light on what actually works in sending us to sleep.
In an unmarked laboratory stationed between Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,a splinter group of scientists is hard at work.
Warm seawater,crumbling pipes and sudden downpours combine to create a potentially deadly cocktail.
The study from the University of Western Australia analysed health records of 401,462 children born in WA between 2003 and 2018.
With more scientific papers being published now than ever,we are being “overwhelmed with information” – and there are questions about the quality of that information.