Australia says no to European Southern Observatory collaboration, applications of quantum mechanics and testing trees’ response to rising carbon dioxide
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Lab Notes: What can we grow on the Moon?
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Australian and New Zealand research presented at Falling Walls Berlin
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Lab Notes: Can we replace lab animals?
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Saving Australia’s R&D, robot for cleaning up oil, and quantum physics with Paul Davies
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Lab Notes: NASA's mission to the Moon
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Possums thought to be extinct found in Papua, early Indigenous ingenuity, and how we adjust to ultra-processed food
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Lab Notes: Super-K flu is here … but it's not our biggest problem
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New idea for the origin of language
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Lab Notes: Slip! Slop! Slap! SUCCESS!
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Astronomy and toxicology converge at Caltech
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Lab Notes: Why air traffic won’t return to normal for months
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How the US came close to losing half its science funding
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Lab Notes: The surprising history of the backyard sprinkler
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Stories told by feet
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Lab Notes: Why buying a star name is nonsense
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Ancient humans lived in an Indonesian cave until Homo sapiens arrived
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Lab Notes: Skincare, pregnancy and a minefield of mixed messages
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Social media ban impacts political knowledge of young Australians
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Lab Notes: Can we tap the brakes on energy-hungry AI?
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Humpbacks threat, green cities and EVs, and origins of life
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Lab Notes: What's behind the rising tree death rates?
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Mysterious stellar object discovered
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Lab Notes: The oldest rock art in the world…that we know of
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Kiruna: The city that moved to make way for a mine
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Lab Notes: Why UV levels are so high in Australia
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A portrait of Dame Miriam Rothschild
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Lab Notes: The Treaty of the Metre: how the metre came to be
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Mary Somerville — Brilliant polymath, scientific genius
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Lab Notes: Why do whales strand en masse?
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Celebrating 50 years of The Science Show
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Lab Notes: Tips to reduce microplastics exposure
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The Science Show
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Lab Notes: How is sunscreen SPF tested?
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Author Terry Pratchett’s links to science and Adelaide
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Lab Notes: How maths explains nature's weirdness
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Evidence shows no link between pain relief drugs and autism
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Lab Notes: Are bioplastics the future of packaging?
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3 young high achievers in science, and Sydney hosts space conference
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Lab Notes: Why aurora season isn't over yet
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Rare earth minerals – we’ll need geologists to find them
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Lab Notes: How are long-range weather forecasts made?
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Bragg winners for science writing, more from the Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science and water droplets used for geoengineering
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Lab Notes: How breastfeeding can protect against cancer
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The Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science and a dilemma over the appropriate use of artefacts from a Roman shipwreck
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Lab Notes: How your brain chooses your next snack
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The history of life on Earth may be very different to what we think
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Lab Notes: Times we thought we found aliens
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Paint additive boosts plant growth in greenhouses
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Lab Notes: The extinct ape-like human relative that made tools
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Teenagers encounter their challenges
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Lab Notes: How solar eclipses trick birds into singing
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2025 Nobel Prizes plus more from the British Science Festival
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Lab Notes: How humpback whales bounced back
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Reports from The British Science Festival in Liverpool England
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Lab Notes: Why CO2 peaks at this time of year
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The Science Show
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Lab Notes: These high-tech mouthguards predict concussions
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Uncovering the mystery of Palau’s ancient terraces
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Lab Notes: After the SPF scandal — how is sunscreen tested?
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Quantum biology, two botanic gardens, and the importance of archaeology
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Lab Notes: Move over, NASA — Australia's heading back into space
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Bird navigation, reducing food waste and a tribute to John Clarke
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Lab Notes: Why your hay fever will get worse with climate change
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The Science Show celebrates 50 years
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Lab Notes: Why do whales beach themselves?
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Complex molecules in space – how they formed and how they got here
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Lab Notes: The fall of the food pyramid
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Gene editing brings promise for genetic blood disorders
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Lab Notes: The native ants that take down cane toads
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The Science Show
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Lab Notes: How do I avoid eating and breathing microplastics?
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Climatic changes everywhere as the world’s oceans become hotter
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Lab Notes: What's quantum mechanics ever done for me?
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Tracing the 100-year history of quantum mechanics
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Lab Notes: Why some mums have all boys or all girls
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Australia's forgotten inventor brothers
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Lab Notes: Can bottom trawling be a sustainable way to fish?
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The trees that harness lightning to kill their rivals
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Lab Notes: The telescope redefining the Universe
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What does it take to bring back an extinct animal?
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Lab Notes: What we can learn from the world’s cleanest air
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A portrait of philosopher Karl Popper
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Lab Notes: How Ozempic stops food cravings
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Celebrating Charles Todd and the overland telegraph
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Lab Notes: The tiny beetle ravaging Perth's trees
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Professor Roger Short, reproductive biologist
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Lab Notes: What makes Sydney's cockies so clever?
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Hang on – we’re about to enter a wormhole!
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Lab Notes: How microscopic algae can devastate ocean life
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Black white and green
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Lab Notes: AI that outperforms humans is coming
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Mary Somerville - Brilliant polymath, scientific genius triumphed against the odds
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Lab Notes: Why a metre is a metre long
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Evidence of oldest reptiles found in Victoria
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Lab Notes: The plight of the southern right whales
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Aging halted in fruit flies. How about humans?
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Lab Notes: Why one man let deadly snakes bite him 200 times
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A happy 99th birthday to a friend of The Science Show
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Lab Notes: Where's my needle-free vaccine?
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