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Kids are full of questions and reading about science at a young age can help them answer those questions and set them up for life. To get you started, we've picked out our top kids science books for Australian Reading Hour.
Our obsession with documenting our pre-masticated pears may inspire some to get creative in the kitchen but unfortunately, it’s also leading others down a destructive path. We've got four tips for sorting the fab diets from the fad diets.
Some food trends come and go (we’re looking at you salted caramel) but some are much more long-term because they’re based on science.
We’ve got a 15 year plan to take Australian healthcare from flab to fab, one that could make us happier, healthier, and save lives and billions of dollars along the way.
All experts agreed there's nothing to worry about if you don't go every day.
Right now, you're living in a kind of industrial revolution – where biotechnology, information technology, manufacturing and automation all come together to form synthetic biology.
Scientists have discovered that the dengue virus alters mosquito’s sense of smell and changes their breeding behaviour, increasing their range of transmission.
With news that our honey might be cut with artificial substitutes, we look at how blockchain could be used to help solve issues like this in the future.
Australian scientists have discovered a new type of anti-cancer drug that can put cancer cells into a permanent sleep.
The dizzying amount of banned substances and doping techniques that are known to be in use by some athletes in elite sports has made the challenge of detecting them immense. Using synthetic biology to re-engineer a common diagnostic tool, we might be on the verge of a revolution in our capacity to catch cheats.
If humans are to live on Mars they will need a stable supply of food. Earth plants are not suited to the Mars climate but we can engineer plants that are.
Smiling is a reflection of confidence and greater confidence leads to a greater capacity to overcome complex situations, such as scoring a goal in the World Cup. We decided to explore whether this same smiling-creativity link holds for entire societies by looking at the relationship between happiness and creative capacity.
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