Australian science is “generally in good health”, but faces major challenges in the form of falling science participation and literacy in high schools, mostly stagnant enrolments at universities, and ...

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 ...

Palaeontologists say evidence pointing to Australia's polar past shows that many dinosaurs roamed the country when the south ...

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 ...

The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) is home to Australian’s nuclear science and technical expertise. ANSTO, an Australian Government funded organisation, operates much ...

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 ...

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 ...

Science is in Canberra this week, and yet we have no titled Minister for Science. No such minister, on a background of Australia’s complex recent history of affiliating the science portfolio with a ...

Charting the Future of the Indonesian Military’s Involvement in Counterterrorism University-based science parks could become highly attractive sites for deeper engagement with industry, venture ...