In 2018, the NSW Higher School Certificate physics syllabus is undergoing changes for the first time in 17 years, but students will not be taught about the contributions of female physicists to the field.
We all know bouncing on the trampoline is fun, but there’s actually a lot of science behind bouncing on a trampoline, and all of those ups and downs are affecting your body too.
Australian scientists have developed a prototype microscope using world-first technology that could have massive implications across a number of fields.
Queensland scientists have discovered a new form of secret light communication in mantis shrimp.
An Australian nanoscientist has become the first female in the world, and only person in the Southern Hemisphere, to win the Nobel Prize of the nanoscience world: the Feynman Prize
Incredible high-speed video shows how ‘splash-cup’ plants use raindrops to spread their seeds.
They key to building mighty sandcastles is combining 99% sand and 1% water, say physicists.
Australians were part of the team behind the discovery of the Higgs boson, a great breakthrough in modern physics.
A novel science experiment involving a jet-setting gnome aims to measure gravity in different parts of the world.
This year’s winners of the PM Science Prizes include chemists who rewrote the textbooks on plastics.