
Defining Moments in Australian History: Penicillin breakthrough
1945: Australian Howard Florey shares in Nobel Prize for developing penicillin.
1945: Australian Howard Florey shares in Nobel Prize for developing penicillin.
Artificial intelligence is opening an exciting world of possibilities for saving species.
The social lives of kangaroos are more complex than we thought.
Beekeepers will switch to managing rather than eradicating the deadly varroa mite.
The weather bureau has declared an El Niño event, meaning severe heat this summer in Australia.
Exotic dung beetles were introduced to Australia to clear away huge quantities of livestock poo. The man who proposed the idea left a legacy greater than dung beetles.
The World Heritage Committee has given Australia more time to address major threats to the Great Barrier Reef and possibly avoid an in-danger listing.
Scientists have discovered a native guava tree that appears to be resistant to invasive myrtle rust.
Noise pollution in oceans has returned to the fore as an issue thanks to a recent United Nations report on this insidious threat to marine life.