South Australia’s koala population has grown so large that it may be heading toward a self-made disaster, with forests ...

The divide between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians is still undeniably wide, with Indigenous Australians consistently losing out in health, employment, incarceration, life expectancy and ...

Australia has the most diverse collections of living mammals in the world. No other continent has the egg-laying monotremes and the pouched marsupials living side by side with placental mammals.

Dr Tim Flannery, a mammologist and bush wildlife expert from the Australian Museum, thinks the testiness of our creatures has ...

The Australian Space Summit & Exhibition 2026 is shaping up as the most intellectually ambitious gathering in the event’s ...

University-based science parks could become highly attractive sites for deeper engagement with industry, venture capitalists, and start-ups, and help procure government funding too. Over the past ...

Results from the longest running large-scale international assessment of maths and science show Australia has significantly improved in Year 8 maths and science, and Year 4 science. More than 580,000 ...

A "perfect storm" of conditions combining upwelling from the deep with run off from the land may be driving crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) outbreaks on the Great Barrier Reef. In new research from ...

Innovation and Science Australia (ISA) has re-issued a warning to the nation in its latest report: Australia needs to accelerate its pace now to catch the leaders of the innovation pack, or risk ...

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has on Tuesday announced the remaining Innovation and Science Australia (ISA) board members that will oversee the nation's innovation agenda. Joining Bill Ferris, who ...