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This healthy Christmas recipe is shown as an looking straight down on a bowl of dip surrounded by seed crackers and green leaves

Healthy Christmas recipes

These healthy Christmas recipes from our latest diet and lifestyle books will really give you something to celebrate this year.

Meet our scientist: Dr Miguel Cruz

The severity of the Black Summer bushfires in Australia helped scientist Dr Miguel Cruz to see first-hand how his bushfire behaviour models could be improved. This month he released the Vesta Mark 2 model.

An artist’s impression of the Double Pulsar system

We counted 20 billion ticks of an extreme galactic clock to give Einstein’s theory of gravity its toughest test yet

Astronomers watched pulsars for 16 years to test Einstein’s theory of general relativity, which has stood unchallenged for over a century.

Meet Elanor Huntington: engineering our future

Professor Elanor Huntington joined us in November as our new Executive Director Digital, National Facilities and Collections. Let's get to know her.

Pressing of a vibrant pink seaweed. It's shaped. The seaweed has branches coming out from the centre. It appears flat except for the centre which has remnants of seaweed.

Seaweed pressing at the beach this summer

Seaweed pressing is a serious science and a hobby you can do at the beach. Our algae researcher Dr Anusuya Willis shows us how.

A rosella bird sitting with the Sydney Harbour Bridge in the background.

Nature is hiding in every nook of Australia’s cities – just look a little closer and you’ll find it

There’s enormous value in citizen science projects that encourage urban-dwellers to learn about what is often on their doorsteps.

Beefing up future protein

Australian beef cattle turn low-quality feed into lots of high-quality protein for human nutrition.

A person wearing a snorkel swims underwater behind a big and colourful coral.

Even if we halt global warming, local climates will change – and we need new experiments to understand how

We need new experiments to model Earth’s climate if global warming is stabilised at 1.5℃. A new paper explains why.

What future science will we invent by 2030?

What technology trends might we see in Australia in 2030? Our leaders in future science platforms share their predictions for the next decade.

Black and white chess pieces on a chess board.

What’s the secret to making sure AI doesn’t steal your job? Work with it, not against it

The best AI chess computer outperforms the best human chess players. Yet the most supreme chess play on Earth comes from a human, helped by AI.

Meet Dr Julie Janssens: hydrochemist of the high seas

Dr Julie Janssens is sailing far and wide to support research that helps us better understand our oceans.

Electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 virions with visible coronae

Science explainer: What we know about the Omicron coronavirus variant

The Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has been detected in Australia. But how will it affect our recovery from the pandemic? Our expert, Dr Rob Grenfell, provides some insights.