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Professor Jagadish puzzles why support of Australian Science is so wanting and says business should see their R&D spend as an investment.

Amal Osman from Flinders University, an ABC Top 5 scientist in 2025 describes sleep apnea, and her work developing new treatments for this debilitating condition.

Robyn Williams meets Superstar of STEM marine biologist Rebecca Duncan.

Robyn Williams meets Superstar of STEM Nicola Lo, an environmental engineer and project manager with Colliers Engineering & Design.

Astrophotographers have had another great month, with the aurora australis lighting up night skies as far north as southern Queensland. And while you might've heard that the best of this bunch of auroras is behind us, don't put your camera away just yet. There's good reason to think the southern lights will illuminate the sky well into 2026. It all depends on what the Sun shoots in our direction …...

It exists for of 10-25 seconds. If you blink, you’ll miss it.

Howe Zhu describes his research area of human computer interaction, and says we should more aware of how technology is changing our behaviour.

The movement and path of lava is a result of lava temperature, its viscosity and the surface over which it flows.

Jas Chambers is the new president of Science & Technology Australia. She comes with ideas to help boost science graduates. 

Veena Sahajwalla launched The Best Australian Science Writing 2025 at UNSW this last week. For Veena, story-telling is the bridge between research and community understanding. Science writing builds trust and provides context.

With fewer graduates, it’s unlikely Australia will have the geologists needed to produce what’s being promised.

It looks like most of Australia is in for a warmer-than-usual summer this year. That's according to the Bureau of Meteorology's long-range forecast, which was released in October. So — without a crystal ball — how do meteorologists make weather predictions so far out, how accurate are they, and how is climate change affecting them? You can binge more episodes of the Lab Notes podcast with science...

This year’s winner, Paula Taylor from The ACT Academy of Future Skills describes her approach to supporting teachers to be exceptional STEM educators. 

Fine droplets of seawater sent high into the atmosphere could increase cloud formation and reflect more of the sun’s heat.

A panel discussion featuring Bragg Science Writing prize winner Tabitha Carvan and runners-up Angus Dalton and James Purtill.

Thanks in part to 18th-century nuns, we now know that having children and breastfeeding reduces a mum's risk of developing breast cancer for years, even until her kid is well into primary school. Now Australian scientists have discovered how breastfeeding specifically enlists the immune system to protect against an aggressive and hard-to-treat type of breast cancer. You can binge more episodes of...

A Roman shipwreck contained lead ingots. Should they be retained as a link to the past, or be utilised for their unique quality allowing experiments to be performed in the search for dark matter?

Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska from the Queensland University of Technology has received the 2025 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science for her pioneering research which transformed how the world understands the airborne transmission of disease and indoor air pollution. 

It's mid-afternoon and time for a treat! Do you choose a healthy piece of fruit, or do you head straight for the chocolate?  It turns out that well before we consciously decide what we're going to eat, our brain has already weighed up our choices — and in a fraction of a second.  Now a new study shows which food attributes are processed by our brain faster than others, and how this might influence...

Brett Summerell describes work being done at the Mt Annan Royal Botanic Garden southwest of Sydney understanding fungal diseases impacting plants everywhere including native vegetation, urban gardens and crops.

Author Starre Vartan shows how women surpass men in endurance, flexibility, immunity, pain tolerance, and the ultimate test of any human body: longevity.

Our understanding of the evolution of biodiversity is based on fossil evidence. But so much more may lie buried and reveal a different story.

Evidence suggests that as early as 12,800 years ago, people captured wild wallabies from the then joined Australia - New Guinea mainland and transported them in canoes to islands sometimes hundreds of kilometres away.

Editor Catherine de Lange says New Scientist will continue to be printed and new younger readers will be encouraged through the digital edition, a podcast, and live events.

We have a mysterious visitor to our little patch of the cosmos this week: A comet called 3I/ATLAS.  This icy, rocky ball is only the third interstellar object we've discovered zooming past our Sun.  There are scientists who think the comet may be alien technology sent from another solar system to invade Earth, but space agencies poured cold water on this idea.  So how will we know if we truly find...