By Fiona Brown Wondering who’s going to win the AFL grand final on the weekend? We were too, so we […]
The winners of the 2014 IgNobel prizes have just been announced, and there’s an Australian among them. Peter K. Jonason […]
More than 2 200 years ago, legend has it, Archimedes got into a bath and had a lightbulb moment. He […]
And boy, does this baby have back. Australia’s new $120m marine research vessel, Investigator, is a thing of beauty. We’ve been […]
Applications for our vacation scholarships are now open. Every year we make about 200 offers to promising undergraduates who are in the advanced stages of their degrees.
National Science Week has just wrapped up for another year. One of the week’s final events was a special astronomy […]
By Emily Lehmann If you thought Wikipedia had everything covered, then you were wrong. Online activists have dropped the bomb that […]
Australia’s Biodiversity series – Part 6: Indigenous perspectives Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples right across Australia have close connections […]
The UN estimates that 780 million people worldwide have no clean water, and that number goes up if you […]
By Jennifer Phillips What does a dung beetle look like? Is this material fire-resistant? What research are you conducting in […]
By Jan Bingley, general manager of business development and commercial I learned a long time ago that “commercialisation” is a […]
Swirling dust and star-forming gas, solar explosions and dancing dishes. These are among the eight photographs and videos that have won […]
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