Tag: Australia News

A Nobel prize-winning technique that underpins worldwide efforts to understand and treat diseases, and develop new drugs and medical therapies...

South Australian researchers are set to use genetic tools to help find innovative solutions to the devastating mouse plagues that have caused massive economic damage to Australian farmers.

New Curtin University research has found that the coral species living on the pristine reefs in Western Australia’s Kimberley and offshore regions will be in danger of disappearing or moving south to cooler waters, if urgent action is not taken to address climate change.

Australia’s first legal, living collection of native magic mushrooms is being studied by scientists in a Brisbane laboratory to help identify characteristics that might be useful for medical research into psychedelic treatments.

As we approach the 60th anniversary of astronaut John Glenn dubbing Perth the ‘City of Lights’ on his orbit around the Earth in Friendship 7, WA is once again shining bright in space, with the first step in an ambitious journey to reach the Moon by 2025.

Scientists have long suspected the digestive systems of nectar-eating birds, such as honeyeaters, co-evolved with the nectar-composition in flowers.

Two outstanding Curtin University students and a leading science outreach program for children have been crowned winners at the 2021 Premier’s Science Awards.

Five women undergraduates from the University of Adelaide have won scholarships to help them continue their science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)-related studies.

A new speech pathology course at Charles Darwin University (CDU) will train more professionals to help Territorians with communication disabilities to better communicate and achieve life goals.

A researcher from The University of Western Australia whose work has paved the way for cleaner, sustainable energy production to meet the need of future generations...