What happens after our Sun expands and consumes the inner planets? Recent exoplanet discoveries suggest a possible future.

Early history of our galaxy, extracting carbon dioxide from air, and a new cancer treatment using an existing drug.

They’ve lived since the time of the dinosaurs. But the outlook is grim for Tasmania’s Maugean skate.

A great range of scientific and technical achievements were made in China hundreds of years earlier than in Europe.

Hotter sea water is inundation small Caribbean islands.

Sophie Andrews leads the Healthy Brain Ageing Research Program and describes some of the work of the Thompson Institute.

Found a Fossil is an essential guide for anyone who finds a fossil or artefact.

Experts put AI to the test.

Editor Gail MacCallum outlines her approach with the commemorative edition.

New technology reveals stress levels in roads, bridges and buildings.

More efficient molecules inside plants could bring a big increase in crop yields.

Judith Sumner views history through a botanical lens

Warm water, violent storms and human activity have seen coral heavily impacted in the Caribbean.

Kirsten Benkendorff has found banned agricultural chemicals in seafood.

Anna Barwick is looking at new models of care to improve health outcomes across Australia.

Heat sensing drones are far more accurate in determining koala populations than counting from the ground.

Identify your feathered neighbours with this new book.

Failing crops and water supply is forcing change to traditional lifestyles.

Legislation is on its way which will force businesses to financially account for their impact on the environment.

From Hobart’s Beaker St Festival Tim Flannery and Robyn Williams tackle the problem of how to approach people who despite overwhelming evidence, won’t be convinced. 

Jan Zalasiewicz wrote about this and is now a proud Ignobel Prize winner.

Magnetic nanoparticles injected near a tumour can generate heat when exposed to wave energy and kill cancer cells.

Robyn Williams visited the telescope site just prior to its completion in 1974. In 2014 he returned as astronomers celebrated 40 years.

Australia is an ideal place for manufacture of personalised, customised products generating high margins. And that becomes possible with the use of robotics and artificial intelligence.

Anthony Webster’s book traces how the places chosen for Australia’s seven colonial capitals came to shape their unique urban character and built environments.

Historian Tom Griffiths says a new kind of history is called for in the year of the Voice referendum. He wrote this essay Odyssey down under for Inside Story.

Susan Beetson is working with Indigenous communities creating digital forms of cultural stories and knowledge ensuring efficacy and economic benefit for knowledge holders.

Former ABC deputy managing director Malcolm Long takes us back to the 1970s when the current RN developed and reflects on a possible future.

At the age of 87, the award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster has stepped down as host of CBC TV's The Nature of Things. In May, the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre in Toronto hosted an evening with David Suzuki: Reflections of an Elder.

Despite the talk of net zero by 2050, global emission are increasing. To reach zero by 2050, we’d need to see a reduction of 5-7% each year. It’s not happening.

There have been successive records of low ice cover in east Antarctica. The first was in 2022. Now another record has been broken in 2023.

Reese Halter reports on how the Amazon is now a place of heatwaves, drought and bushfires.

The Future Is Now,  presents the latest on wind, solar, geothermal, tidal power, energy storage and more.

Winner Judith Stutchbury in Queensland has galvanised her classes to rescue turtles, clean up beaches and do what’s needed to make their district thrive.

The Energy Storage Research Group at QUT tests all sorts of batteries essential for the transition to renewable energy.

We revisit an interview with Sir Clarence Lovejoy, Australian Nobel Prize winner in the field of brain research.

Excerpts from the 2023 awards presentation and panel discussion.

Nova Weetman reads from her children’s book on physicist Michelle Simmons, a pioneer in quantum computing.

Dermatologists Natasha Mesinkovska and Christine Pham have won the Ig Nobel Medicine Prize for their work using cadavers to explore whether there is an equal number of hairs in each of a person’s two nostrils.

A decline in seahorses due to habitat loss and pollution may be reversing.

Author Michele Gierck describes how she is inspired by the natural world and how she created an adventure story for children based on science and the lives of two little fish.

In his book, The Primacy of Doubt, Tim Palmer explores how the geometry of chaos can explain our uncertain world - from weather and pandemics to quantum physics and free will.

Saffron O’Neill is exploring why particular types of climate imagery continue to thrive and circulate, whilst others don’t.

Anita Parbhakar-Fox says there is large-scale waste in mining and there are big benefits, economic, environmental and social if companies look closer at their waste.

Fragmented rocks can absorb carbon dioxide from the air. Great! Could this save us?

Mathematician Herbert Huppert explains the processes that have led to Australia’s extensive nickel deposits.

Sally Hurst has created the website Found a Fossil as a resource for what you can do and who to contact when you find a heritage object.

Indrani Mukherjee says geology needs a Taylor Swift to sell geology and persuade young people of the field’s importance.

Laleh Moghaddam describes a bio-based glue intended for use on coral reefs to repair corals after storms.

Western Australia’s rabbit proof fence provides evidence of the effect of land clearing on climate.

Researchers at Caltech are designing immune cells whose position can be manipulated using ultrasound. These cells recognise cancer cells then damage them from the inside upon receiving a focused ultrasound stimulus.

The winner is Glenn King for his pioneering use of peptides from Australian funnel-web spider venom for crop protection and potentially human therapeutics. 

Griffith University’s Associate Professor Lara Herrero has been awarded the 2023 Prime Minister’s Prize for New Innovators for her work on creating a drug for the treatment of Ross River Virus.

Herbert Huppert has discovered that while crystals form in cooling lava, they don’t have a major impact on lava flow. It is viscosity which plays the major role in the speed and spread of flowing lava.

Brian Cox and The Sydney Symphony take audiences on a tour of the universe.

This year’s Physical Scientist of the Year is Professor Yuerui (Larry) Lu from the Australian National University.

Scientists are catching and tagging sea snakes in Exmouth Gulf to learn more about their abundance and range.

Ryan Hechinger describes a parasite which has different stages of its life cycle in a snail, in fish, and animals that eat fish, including humans.

Ben Goldacre continues this week explaining that it is teams of specialists working together which produce the ideas and methods for health research projects.

Winner Donna Buckley teaches mathematics at the John Curtin College of the Arts in Fremantle. She inspires students with diverse, creative backgrounds to apply mathematics to real-world problems, and introduces them to careers in science. 

Based in Cambridge, the Isaac Newton Institute welcomes scientists from all disciplines eager to immerse themselves in maths and stats.

Kate Helmstedt at QUT applies mathematics to natural resource and environmental management.

Freddie Poznansky is working with local communities in Borneo giving them skills in recording environmental sounds. Computers then analyse the recordings producing a measurement of biodiversity and change over time.

Rachel Hartnell describes some of the work undertaken to maintain safe seafood in the UK.

Gabrielle Oslington describes some of her approaches for introducing junior students to basic concepts in mathematics.

The winner of the Prime Minister’s 2023 Frank Fenner Prize for Life Scientist of the Year is Professor Chris Greening for his discovery of how microbes in soil and water absorb gases and impact climate.

Australian Academy of Science CEO Anna-Maria Arabia reviews a big year for the academy and the chance for Australia to join a coalition of science collaboration, Horizon Europe.

OpenSAFELY guarantees the use of health records without identifying who the records belong to.

Varroa mites do not affect native bees and the mites may even be helpful for native bees following the reduction in feral honeybees impacted by the mites.

Changing climate will be with all of us for the rest of our lives. Writer Lauren Fuge says we need to hear stories about how people are changing the way they live.

The play sees nine school kids trapped in Antarctica. How will they survive?

Physicist Michelle Simmons accepts the top award for her work in atomic electronics.

It’s not just one-on-one. Group intelligence can be seen when people engage with others in activities together such as exercise, singing, chanting or dancing.

Senior high school student Penelope Jin has read extensively on Alzheimer’s Disease. She hopes young people will come to appreciate the challenges faced by older folk.

Pine plantations in the Scottish Highlands are being removed and replaced with native species, with ancient peat bogs preserved.

9 times more forest than average has burnt in Canada in 2023. Reese Halter reports.

Sustainability consultant Brendan May says the countries of southeast Asia are embracing the energy transition and are on board with nature conservation policies.

For some it was a welcomed return to village living. For others extended stay-at-home was a tragedy.

Pamela Bjorkman and her colleagues at Caltech in Los Angeles are developing a protein-based vaccine which targets aspects of SARS-CoV-2 which are in common among variants.

Did SARS-CoV-2 escape from a lab, or did it evolve in nature? Science writer Ella Finkel has collected the facts and presents them as if evidence in a court room.

Shelby Traynor reports on the Nobel Prizes for physics, medicine and chemistry announced this week.

The response was quick as RNA vaccines were being developed that could be applied to COVID.

Rachel Ankeny presents a tribute to outspoken scientist and philosopher Evelyn Fox Keller.

Science writer Georgina Ferry has seen a suspicion from scientists towards the media who say their work is often dumbed down or not understood.

The trust facilitates conversations around science among people from diverse areas including arts, business and government, based on a solid scientific foundation.

David Flannery at the Queensland Institute of Technology describes his role in the Mars mission and the challenge in controlling a rover on another planet.

The finding that prominent female scientists are missing from school curricula shocked many of us. So why is representation so important?

With the news that our school curricula are missing the names of female scientists, it begs the question: Why aren't prominent scientists household names?

Hundreds of Western Australian students are getting their hands dirty, helping transform degraded urban areas into pockets of greenery.

The British PM, Rishi Sunak, announced last week he's dropping the plan to reduce UK's CO2 emissions so soon, despite their promise at the UN Conference on Climate.

This volcanic archipelago in the Pacific Ocean has a problem with plastic, and unique challenges when it comes to overcoming it.

Researchers are trying to figure out whether AI could relieve stress in human air traffic controllers and save fuel.

The Exeter Science Park brings together developing research, and the people it might go on to benefit.

How do we transform the vehicles our society relies on to a more sustainable form of transport?

12 scientists, health practitioners, activists and artists have written stories for the anthology published in English and Arabic.

Knowing the number of big and small trees can tell us a lot about a forest's overall health.

UK researchers were locked out of the scheme for three years over Brexit disagreements.

A scientific battle has been fought in New York in an attempt to find out how consciousness arises from the brain

Are our mental faculties diminished when we delegate too much thinking to AI? 

Work is underway to detect tiny markers of disease present in a person's breath.

What if we could capitalise on humidity to boost water reserves? Well researchers from the University of Newcastle are being funded to do just that.

Transylvania is one of King Charles' favourite regions. In 2018 he commissioned artworks celebrating its floral diversity.

This Australian father-daughter duo played a huge part in the science and philosophy instrumental in the mind-brain problem. 

As we set our sights on future moon missions, let's take a look back at the very first.  Dr Earle Hackett was one of the team of special commentators who contributed to ABC Radio's coverage of Apollo 11 in July 1969.

Australian scientist, Nobel Prize winner Sir John Eccles, devoted his working life to unravelling the complexities of the human brain.

An effective way to stay secure might be to limit our use of devices. 

One expert claims salmon farming is changing ecosystems to the detriment of wildlife and humans. 

UN scientific advisors have once more advised against declaring the Great Barrier Reef 'in danger' while warning Australia must do more to protect it. 

Kai Turner won the robotics category at ISEF for building a drone that helps fix powerlines — automating a dangerous task. 

Both Australia and Madagascar have been geographically isolated, enabling them to develop unique flora and fauna.

Both weed management and cancer treatment require targeted measures, to avoid doing more harm than good. So what can oncologists learn from farmers? 

Parasites can be found almost anywhere you look — you're probably carrying some around right now, in your intestinal tract.

The oratorio 'Origins' had its world premiere in Melbourne last month. Here's another segment of the performance: Extinction. 

Professor Emma Johnston warned the Royal Society of NSW about the violence of climate change.

An annual showcase of science and art, the event sprung from a failed attempt to open a science-themed pub.

many of us might realise. One marine scientist has shown how salt from Antarctic ice is affecting weather patterns in parts of Australia. 

Dr Lisa Gershwin is shining an ultra-violet light on everything she can get her hands on: from tennis balls, to hair, to jars of peanut butter. 

Now she's back in Australia, what does Wendy Zukerman have to say about the difference between the US and Australia when it comes to science communication?

One lecturer is asking people to sit in silence for five minutes and notice what they hear. What are your ears really telling you?

Sir John Cornforth's experience of sound was minimal. He was deaf at school and at the University of Sydney – for most of his long life, in fact.

Sentics is the study of how emotions are generated, for instance, while listening to music. 

We're looking for the most loved native animal sound in celebration of National Science Week. Carl Smith takes us through the finalists.

Each year some birds migrate thousands of kilometres. But there's evidence climate change is already affecting this seasonal survival strategy. 

Animals with 1,000 times more cells than humans — like elephants or whales — don't seem to have an increased cancer risk.

The composition 'Origins' had its world premiere in Melbourne in July, and it received a standing ovation. 

Scientists are measuring the activity of neurotransmitters to create a chemical map of the brain.

Medicinal plants are the focus of a new art exhibition at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney — Botanica de Materia Medica.

Time crystals are states of matter whose patterns repeat at set intervals of time rather than space.

The Exploratorium in San Francisco, opened in 1969, inspired our own science centres in Australia.

Device scans the internal makeup of structures and substances – natural or artificial – using subatomic particles called muons.

The anthology Outer Space: 100 Poems journeys through time, exploring the common themes and changing perspectives of poets from the 12th century BCE to today.

Tim Entwisle is well known to RN listeners, and to botanists globally. This week he says farewell as director of Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria.

This Nobel Prize winner is on a mission to uncover anything that might violate the principle of time reversal symmetry.

A foretaste of what Tim Flannery will say about the spreading of untruth at this year's Beaker Street Festival in Tasmania.

The macaques can tell us a lot about how our status in society affects our wellbeing. 

Robyn Williams caught up with a former Sleek Geek winner to find out what’s been capturing his interest.

The University of Wollongong's Early Start program is designed to help kids flourish — especially those in regional and remote Australia.

The Royal Society is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. And the long lives of its presidents caught the attention of Professor Herbert Huppert.

John Goodenough's career spanned seven decades, during which his discoveries sparked the wireless revolution.

Is there a way to make a quick buck on the energy your home is generating through renewable sources?

What if we could harness the nitrogen in our atmosphere, sunlight and water to create fuel and fertiliser?

Soaring temperatures have been fuelling wildfires across Canada — which have had far-reaching effects in the US and Europe. 

Once the largest expanse of lowland subtropical rainforest in Australia, only 1% of the Big Scrub now remains.

Efforts are underway to not only protect existing koala populations, but to replenish those that have dwindled.

As a young Indigenous woman, Teresa Cochrane in NSW is keen to apply traditional knowledge of care to conservation.

Professor tells how teaching basic techniques is better for students than trying to entice them with cute robots and other stunts.

The Ocean Youth event in Townsville was one of many organised to connect like-minded people. 

Dr Rhett Loban has developed a VR game to communicate Torres Strait culture and knowledge, centred on a traditional Tombstone Opening.

Come for a tour of CERN's cryogenic test facility to see how engineers meticulously test and understand the unique personalities of each magnet.

For this final taste of ABC Science's series Pacific Scientific, Carl Smith gets swarmed and stung in a mission to discover how one country is learning to live with the pest.

In countries like Fiji and Papua New Guinea, beekeepers have learned to live with varroa mite — the colony-killing pest that's only just recently found its way into Australia.

In this episode of Pacific Scientific, we meet a man with a fascinating but fraught job, working at the edge of conservation and ecotourism.

Producer Shelby Traynor followed a group of early-career scientists taken under the wing of a couple of comedians, to inject some humour into their presentations.

Australia's frogs have a secret in their skin … and it could be the key to fighting drug-resistant bugs.

When it comes to protecting flood-prone areas, large-scale infrastructure is often costly and slow. So, some communities are choosing to fight against flooding in their own backyards.

There are thousands of old cars hidden in the jungles and fields of Tonga. Join ABC Science Reporter Petria Ladgrove as she untangles the kingdom's messy history of waste. 

Tag along for a trip out to sea to meet a woman from the Solomon Islands who is tracking this looming danger in the Pacific Ocean.

We journey to Goondiwindi to see why one farm is growing marine algae there — 400 kilometres from the ocean.

A glimpse inside the Pacific's gene bank, CePaCT, where rows and rows of tiny sprouts sit in stasis as backups for the region's most important crops.

Scientists are keeping track of biodiversity in the Pacific to ensure the safety of species, like the giant tree gecko, well into the future. 

The vast majority of workers in Fiji are involved in agriculture. But the economic contribution of most small-scale agriculture remains low.

In 1885, Edith Emily Dornwell was among the first three science graduates in Australia. 

We might soon move away from metallic implants. Researchers have developed a scaffold that can regenerate bone, before dissolving. 

Peter Bernhardt tells the story of botanist Carrick Chambers, whose biography has just been published.

This year's Sydney Observatory residents span the arts and the sciences.  Shelby Traynor meets an astrophysicist and photographer, who plans to compare the night skies of Sydney to elsewhere.

What might it take to find alien life? New instruments are being developed to aid the search. 

Research shows there are gender differences in temperature regulation, and oestrogen may play a part. 

The ability to learn without instruction is making machines faster and more powerful. 

Hallie Richmond and Sophie Yates get a “life-changing” chance to rub shoulders with top scientists.

The story of how the Gladiolus found its way to the stage involves one of our top botanists, and some fascinating research into plant genetics.

One scientist argues these plants are weedy by name, but not by nature. They can be immensely useful, even ones that spread like Triffids! 

Most freight trains and long distance passenger trains still run on diesel. And possible alternatives still pose engineering challenges. 

Are we alone in the universe? The UCLA SETI group has launched a citizen-science project to find out. 

There are eight billion of us humans, all with our unique problem-solving and decision-making skills. But with artificial intelligence, we could add a few billion more minds to the mix. 

Justin Yerbury joined started researching motor neurone disease when he uncovered a family history of MND. He was diagnosed himself in 2016. 

He's one of the most famous scientists ever. But who was Isaac Newton, really? Sharon Carleton presents a portrait like no other about the myths surrounding the genius.

Monkeys that lived through hurricane appeared to age two years more than expected.

Epigenetics shows how stressors such as hunger and even slavery, can alter your genome.

A Nobel Prize winner is convinced axions clean up the mystery of dark matter, the missing 85 per cent of the universe. 

One scientist is working on a new apparatus underground, to detect the ever-elusive dark matter.

Sydney Observatory resident Shireen Taweel creates artworks that reflect what sacred architecture might look like on Mars. 

Slime, more scientifically known as biofilm, develops when cells stick together and also to surfaces. 

Are sustainability targets doing what they set out to do? Or could a different approach deliver better results?

Reflecting on Sir David Attenborough's decades-long contribution to our understanding of the natural world. 

The Scripps Ocean Atmosphere Research Simulator (SOARS) creates the current and future ocean and atmosphere boundary layer allowing an understanding of how human activities are changing the chemistry of the ocean and atmosphere, and how this could impact global climate.

Robert Skip Pomeroy describes products being developed and the challenges in entering established markets.

The Daily Diary is technology with capability similar to a cell phone or fit bit which records the activities of animals.

Ralph Keeling continues to measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, work begun by his father in 1958.

The lab uses stable isotope biogeochemistry to answer questions regarding diet, group interactions, population changes and habitat use. Samples are taken from shells, whiskers and teeth.

The shoes are made from hemp, eucalyptus and cotton uppers, with soles made from algae-based foam.

Harry Atwater discusses work on stripping carbon dissolved in seawater, artificial photosynthesis, and using renewable energy to produce hydrogen from water.

In just 20 years of observation, the cloud has elongated and shows signs of being pulled apart by the black hole’s super gravity.

Composer Stefan Gregory is writing an opera as part of a residency at the Sydney Observatory.

By inserting fine electrodes into the brains of flies Karin Nordström can detect and measure sensory impulses in response to stimuli such as light and images.

Inoculation is showing promise in protecting bees from the varroa mite.

Bee venom shows promise treating a range of cancers.

Australian scientists proved Einstein and put Australia on the scientific map.

PhD student at UCLA Ashley Schoenfeld has published a scientific paper using data from the Cassini spacecraft mission to Saturn.

The plan is for vast arrays of light-weight solar cells to collect energy and send it to Earth in a powerful beam.

As much as 6 litres of wastewater is produced in vineyards for each litre of wine produced.

Gardens by the Bay is a mixture of nature and theme park and a welcomed relief from high density living for residents and visitors.

Peter Bernhardt reviews Michael Pollan’s book about three mind-altering substances derived from plants.

We hear one of Tom Lehrer’s most popular songs, The Elements.

Shahrzad Shirkhanzadeh describes the situation in Iran where protesters calling for democracy are being fired upon with shrapnel causing blindness and poisonous gas.

James Nieh describes how bees are able to find their nest after flying long distances to collect food.

Rather than keeping people out, visitors are encouraged to visit wild places, to developed understanding and connection.

As pressure on the natural world increases, new technology is bringing fast results as scientists monitor fauna and flora and identify new species.

The presence and amount of water will determine where future Moon missions will be sent.

Robert Newton says exercise is a medicine bringing highly coordinated biochemical changes within the body with no side effects.

Speaking on The Science Show in 1993, then Prince Charles expressed concerns about our impact on natural ecosystems.

Forum for the Future founder Jonathon Porritt describes the challenge and opportunity for business in a changing world.

One of the most complex forms of communication known outside humans, that of honey bees, relies on learning and culture.

David Fisher reports from the art exhibition launch at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney.

Will speaks about climate tipping points and the risk of over- estimating a climate tipping point.

If hydrogen is to be used as a fuel, it will need to be stored. MOFs or metal organic frameworks are highly absorbent compounds which absorb and easily release hydrogen.

Newcastle is the biggest coal export port in the world. In time, it may become the biggest port exporting hydrogen.

The next book in the Aussie STEM Stars series features engineer Veena Sahajwalla.

Chris Ferrie reads from his book Quantum Bullsh*t.

Kliti Grice at Curtin University in Perth specialises in the rare cases of soft tissues being preserved as fossils.

On The Edge – Species At Risk highlights nature in peril.

Create4Adelaide gives young people a voice on climate change issues.

Science funding of 1.7% in Australia compared with similar countries spending 3%.

A new technique detects DNA on bags used for carrying wildlife.

Despite being only 1mm long and having just 300 neurons, the roundworm is ideal for brain research.

Alix Woolard is working on new ways to help identify, target, intervene and improve the lives of children and young people who have experienced medical such as burn injury.

In The Teen Interpreter, psychologist Terri Apter looks into teens’ minds—minds that are experiencing powerful new emotions and awareness of the world around them—to show how parents can revitalize their relationship with their children.

Strange Frontiers is a seven-part series taking you to remarkable, hard-to-reach, and off-limits places where scientists work.

Tim reads from his memoir reflecting on the place of botanic gardens today.

In additional to being fascinating and beautiful natural organisms, algae produce many useful products and provide essential services such as absorbing large amounts of carbon dioxide.

Strange Frontiers is a seven-part series taking you to remarkable, hard-to-reach, and off-limits places where scientists work.

In his early twenties, poor, racked with depression, Thomas Henry Huxley was a nobody. And yet with partner Henrietta Heathorn he began one of the great intellectual and scientific dynasties of his age. The Huxley family through four generations shaped how we all see ourselves. By observing both nature and culture, they worked as scientists, novelists, mystics, filmmakers, poets and as public lecturers, educators and explainers.

The Science Olympiad for senior high school students has been underway for 36 years. Now there’s an Olympiad for junior high students.

Seagrass meadows absorb and store large amounts of carbon removing it from the atmosphere for thousands of years.

Strange Frontiers is a seven-part series taking you to remarkable, hard-to-reach, and off-limits places where scientists work.

Eggs of parasites accumulate in the veins and arteries of turtles and leads to death.

Genetic differences among students are the single biggest influence on literacy and numeracy but students attending private schools make no more progress from years 3 to 9 than students attending public schools.

A pedestrian simulator is predicting pedestrian behaviour and linking results with autonomous vehicles.

Strange Frontiers is a seven-part series taking you to remarkable, hard-to-reach, and off-limits places where scientists work.

The vortex fluidic device applies mechanical energy replacing chemical reactions.

Murdoch University’s research and education facility brings science, business and the community together to address environmental problems.

The Miyawaki method of planting pocket forests is part of students’ science and environment education in some primary schools in Western Australia.

CT scanning and 3D printing allow palaeontologists to produce replicas of bones while they remain encased in opal.

Strange Frontiers is a seven-part series taking you to remarkable, hard-to-reach, and off-limits places where scientists work.

Christine Cooper has found echidnas, wherever they live, hot or cold, stay comfy by blowing bubbles! 

It reduces urban sprawl and transport costs and produces lively city environments. High density living can be highly energy efficient and brings a sense of community for residents.

Strange Frontiers is a seven-part series taking you to remarkable, hard-to-reach, and off-limits places where scientists work.

Pauline Newman speaks to physicists about the work and legacy of John Wheeler.

Physicist Chris Ferrie takes readers on a humorous journey revealing all about quantum physics.

Integrity Matters, a report from the COP27 climate conference examines the commitments and actions of non-state entities such as claims from businesses.

Strange Frontiers is a seven-part series taking you to remarkable, hard-to-reach, and off-limits places where scientists work.

Is it pollution? Is it disturbance? Or something else? Mattea Taylor at the University of Newcastle is investigating why shorebirds are in decline.

Sara Webb is probing how humans and machines can work better together. It involves work in astronomy, defence, public health and other space-related areas. 

From T. H. Huxley - ‘Darwin’s Bulldog’ – to author Aldous Huxley to Nobel Prize winner Andrew Huxley, a new book tells the tale of this remarkable scientific family.

This school student wants you to know how the scientific process discerns fact from fiction.

The IPCC's Vice-Chair shares his thoughts on which major climate change issues might be prominent in 2023.

Matthew Bailes outlines areas of research at Swinburne University of Technology’s Centre of Excellence For Gravitational Wave Discovery.

Swinburne University researchers are solving real world problems for users of medical technology.

Naomi McClure-Griffiths is studying the process of galaxies consuming their neighbours and she says this will happen as the Milky Way and the galaxies of the Magellanic Clouds merge.

Geneticist Jenny Graves and co-librettist Leigh Hay have written an oratorio based on science, to sit beside Haydn’s oratorio,  The Creation.

A finalist in 2022 was Kaya Kimla, a year 7 student at Kirrawee High School in Sydney. Kaya reads her essay The two-way science.

The Science Journalists Association of Australia supports science journalists from all parts of Australia.

Following experiments with peas and other plants, Gregor Mendel proposed a theory of inheritance which became the basis of modern biology.

The overland telegraph connecting Australia to the world was completed 150 years ago. It was built due to the dedication of a public servant, Charles Todd.

Peter Underwood reflects on the human paradox. Achievement beyond belief, the ability to pursue the most challenging questions, and the ease with which we will cut life short, destroying families, achievement and potential.

She became an expert on fleas and despite no formal education received honorary doctorates from both Oxford and Cambridge was elected a fellow of The Royal Society.

Naomi Oreskes describes how misinformation has been a successful tactic in debate over climate and Matthew England explains how humans have changed the Earth’s climate in just over 150 years, how oceans absorb gases and redistribute heat, and in the process will bring changes to all life on Earth.

Rather than guards needing to monitor hundreds or thousands of video feeds from cameras around a city, cameras can now detect abnormal activity and send an alert.

George Pantazis and Veena Nair have been awarded the Prime Minster’s Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching.

A survey of over 1,000 users of contraception revealed anger and frustration towards doctors who downplay side effects.

The Adelaide Botanic Garden’s rose garden has been proclaimed a Garden of Excellence by the World Federation of Rose Societies.

Peter Bernhardt reviews a book which takes us to wild and rugged places in search of botanical wonder.

Anne Stone uses ancient DNA to trace diseases and thinks tuberculosis may have originated in seals.

Excerpts from the 2022 awards ceremony including the address from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Ryan Witt describes threats for koalas and his use of drones in monitoring the marsupials.

In her book, Danielle Clode explores some of the mysteries surrounding koalas, tracing their evolutionary history, their lifestyle and habits including their relationship with humans.

Virtual Angkor recreates the sprawling Cambodian metropolis of Angkor at the height of the Khmer empire’s power and influence around 1300 C.E.

Jim Falk attended the recent COP27 climate talks in Egypt and made this presentation bringing awareness to the threat of the rapid growth of cascading and converging risks to the world’s population and the support systems on which we rely.

The Empress of Russia befriended an English doctor and had herself and her son inoculated against smallpox, demonstrating the benefit of the new technique.

Sara Couperthwaite is using tailings from mine sites to recover high-grade alumina, which can be used in the production of lithium-ion batteries and LED lights.

The pore size of this metal-organic framework makes it ideal for use with post combustion flue gases from coal burning power stations.

Olivia reflects on the importance of science, and the communication of science ideas and stories in social media and elsewhere.

Simon Rogerson says technology is obsessed with function creep. He calls for technology fit for purpose rather than the over complicated machines we are surrounded by today.

Lorenn Ruster is working with entrepreneurs to instil in them the idea of technology with dignity, so it underpins everything they do and they develop technology without the downside.

The Virtual Angkor project recreates the sprawling Cambodian metropolis of Angkor at the height of the Khmer empire’s power and influence around 1300 C.E.

The findings also suggest that Neanderthal communities were small, and that females routinely left their families to join new groups.

Bragg winner Lauren Fuge and runner-up winners Helen Sullivan and Olivia Willis discuss the stories behind their winning pieces with editor Ivy Shih.

Carl Smith reports from the forum in Heidelberg where young researchers in computer science and maths meet the high achievers in their field.

Three students recently graduated from Kiama High School tell how they were impacted by their week with other top science students at the Youth Science Forum in London.

The jets are seen shooting into space from opposite directions and are mostly hydrogen plasma, but with traces of other elements.

Audiences it seems love a murder mystery based on poisoning using plants.

New technology applied to old specimens can reveal how species have changed over time.

More than 5 million specimens have been digitised. Just 75 million to go. It’s a slow journey, but the benefits are great.

Nicky Clayton’s work has led to a radical re-evaluation of animal cognition and raises important issues about the evolution of cognition.

The discovery raises questions about the behaviour and ecology of thylacines.

In northern NSW Deborah Bower and Eric Nordberg are investigating turtle ecology and hope to reverse their decline.

Around 4,200 years ago, horses began accepting humans. Greger Larson describes the change in a species which changed the course of human history.

CEO Ottoline Leyser describes her vision for UKRI and the challenges ahead for the UK’s funding body for scientific research.

Reducing emissions and removing carbon dioxide won’t be enough to reduce the increase in temperature. We need to protect the planet from incoming solar radiation.

Cambridge Zero uses the university’s knowledge and initiative to develop carbon zero solutions for al.

Khay Fong is monitoring plastic in Australian coastal waters.

Sand is being washed away. Rocks are being exposed. Coastal development is built too close to the surf zone. Michael Kinsela says we are ignoring the dynamic nature of coastlines.

Carbon based materials will be widely used in fuel cells, batteries and coatings for solar cells.

When you prune a rose, a bud on the stem gets a message and begins to grow. How is the message sent and how is it received? And how is it determined which bud begins to grow?

A fully immersive experience awaits visitors to London’s Science Museum at its exhibition Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination.

Geologist and Palaeontologist Marissa Betts shares the passion for geoscience

Samantha Wallace is monitoring tree frogs battling habitat loss and the Chytrid fungus.

Greger Larson has charted the history of chickens, how they became part of the agricultural scene and how they became domesticated.

A handheld device detects a molecular signature indicating the presence of TB.

The National Indigenous Science Education Program (NISEP) uses STEM subjects to help Indigenous secondary students leading to tertiary education and employment.

Vast cavities from underground mines hold promise for use in pumped hydro projects.

A facility making batteries for electricity grids based on abundant materials has been opened in Sydney.

The collection in Hobart contains more than 160,000 specimens.

The 2022 Nobel Prizes for medicine, chemistry and physics have been announced. Shelby Traynor reports.

The mission will launch in 2025 and will study charged particles which are projected from the Sun and interfere with satellites and equipment on Earth.

Law lecturer Zainab Naqvi discusses her award-winning presentation at this year’s British Science Festival where she addressed belonging and what influences it in people.

An excerpt from WHO'S GONNA SAVE US? - the ABC podcast series looking at people and solutions as we battle the climate crisis.

Danielle Verdon-Kidd is studying the nature and triggers of extreme weather events, such as droughts, bushfires and storms to help us better prepare for what lies ahead.

Martin Rees argues we need to think globally, and long-term, empowered by twenty-first-century technology and be guided by values that science alone cannot provide.

The flavour ubiquitous in the food and cosmetic industries, vanillin, can be made from plastic using special bacteria.

The lab is testing an electric rally car and a range extender for other electric vehicles.

Vice-Chancellor Katie Normington describes De Montfort University’s new approach to education.

Computational analysis helps identify the source of some texts.

Fossils of complex animals have been found in central England which date to a period when only unicellular organisms were thought to exist.

New Scientist Live is a science festival presented by New Scientist magazine and is back in early October 2022.

New technology allows solar energy to be collected from a roll of plastic.

Shaped by the Sea, Stories of Deep Time Australia explores the extraordinary forces that created our island nation drawing on scientific and First Peoples perspectives.

Metal organic frameworks are materials which act like a sponge and can absorb carbon dioxide from the air.

The Naked Scientists was born more than 20 years ago. It was given an early boost after Chris Smith met Robyn Williams in a 1-star hotel in London.

Highly absorbent materials and high precision analytical methods may lead to the development of cancer screening using breath.

Lidia Morawska’s knowledge and work on airborne transmission of viruses was behind a WHO recommendation regarding ventilation in the early days of the COVID pandemic.

Residents want action from government, and local government allows them to get involved.

Karen Blackmore at The University of Newcastle is working with UN peacekeepers preparing them for battlefield conditions using virtual reality.

The University of Newcastle is producing graduates to help transform the region from a coal hub to one with strong, clean, sustainable industries.

Peter Hadfield reports from Farnborough where he was shown the latest in drone aircraft for the battlefield. Will artificial intelligence decide who lives and who dies?

Thierry Peynot at the Queensland Institute of Technology is designing a rover for NASA’s lunar mission planned for early 2026.

Pauline Newman reports on a physicist whose life work has been to test one aspect of Einstein’s theory, known as frame-dragging.

A Guide to Land Snails of Australia is an overview of Australia's native and introduced land snails, offering a greater understanding of their role in the natural environment.

 A new metro and a focus on pedestrian access promises to open up Brisbane’s cultural centre.

Paramedics trained in emergency nursing could help prevent unnecessary ambulance trips to hospital emergency departments. But paramedics with nursing experience are prevented from applying their skills.

How diets impact the environment, new tech allows quick and cheap cancer diagnosis and discoveries improving the treatment of sexually transmitted infections feature in the 2022 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes announced this week. David Fisher reports.

Steve Salisbury says the giant sauropod dinosaurs must have had pads under their feet to help support more than 10 tonnes on each leg.

Writer Deb Fitzpatrick describes writing about surgeon Ajay Rane for the series of books Aussie Stem Stars.

Futurist Catherine Ball takes us on a journey through the big technology breakthroughs which could reshape our world.

Frederic Gilbert is exploring the psychological impacts that sometimes come with brain implants.

The new materials require less energy input, produce fewer emissions, and can even lock up carbon.

Imported cattle required imported dung beetles. But there are gaps in geography and season. Valerie Caron hopes to introduce new species of dung beetles.

When lockdown restricted student Nelson Crossley to 5Km from home, he got to know a local wetland. Despite the urban environment, he found a rich abundance of flora and fauna, including the eastern long-necked turtle.

The book with all you need to know to be a naturalist in your backyard, a small local park, or a larger area.