Scientists have made the grim discovery of a 10,000-year-old massacre site on the shores of a Kenyan lake. The Cambridge University-led expedition recovered 12 skeletons, of men and women, at Nataruk near Lake Turkana. Some skeletons had their skulls crushed, ...

Researchers have developed a smart pill that may sniff out the human gut’s reaction to fibre. RMIT scientists have finished animal trials of a gas sensing pill. The pills send data about what is going inside the gut directly to ...

Curtin University researchers got a late Christmas present from the heavens, recovering a meteorite from outback South Australia on New Year’s Eve. Planetary geologist professor Phil Bland had to dig the meteorite out of a 42cm-deep hole in the salt bed of Lake Eyre ...

James Cook University researchers have discovered that sex sells – even for mosquitoes. Brian Johnson, senior research officer at JCU’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and JCU professor Scott Ritchie, dengue fever expert, have set out to make a cheap ...

Astronomers have found strong magnetic fields in stars are not rare, as previously thought, but common. Previously, only 5 to 10 per cent of known stars were thought to host strong magnetic fields. As such, current models of star evolution ...

Mislabelling, spreadsheet errors and incomplete data are just some of the basic mistakes in medical research that can cost lives – but they can be avoided if scientists are aware of how easily it can happen, an expert has said. ...

University of Queensland researchers have made Australia's latest discovery of a species of dinosaur. Kunbarrasaurus ieversi (Kunbarrasaurus) is an ankylosaurus, a four-legged herbivore closely related to stegosaurs. This newly determined species had a parrot-like beak and an inner ear like a ...

The release of the innovation statement, the government’s first major economic statement since Malcolm Turnbull was appointed prime minister, is a genuine attempt to address the paradox of Australia’s strong research performance and poor track record in translating research outcomes into ...

New research has found it can take young people 10 years to secure full-time work, but through no fault of their own. The Life Patterns study from University of Melbourne’s Youth Research Centre followed a cohort of just under 4000 ...

The Australian National University has topped the Excellence in Research Australia rankings, amid a strong showing nationwide. The ERA results, compiled by the Australian Research Council and released today, showed 95 per cent of ANU's broad-field research was rated above ...