A clinical trial has begun for a second-generation COVID vaccine, two years after the technology was abandoned.

Two major Queensland building companies have collapsed in recent weeks.

The largest ever penalty for a workplace death in the Northern Territory has been handed down.

Harvard experts are designing more useful bacteria to create medicines and biofuels.

Andrew Forrest has launched a $760 million takeover bid for a BHP nickel supplier.

A new chemical process is giving carbon capture and conversion “more bang for buck”.

The UK Space Agency is backing research into the use of nuclear power on the Moon.

Australian experts have developed a new tool to probe nature with extreme quantum sensitivity.

The United States has approved the sale of up to US$895 million (AU$1.3 billion) worth of the guided weapons.

A major new solar farm will soon help replace New South Wales coal.

Queensland is looking to a new batch of students to grow its emerging hydrogen industry.

Former prime minister Paul Keating has savaged Australia's nuclear submarine deal.

Amazon has announced its plans to launch its first batch of internet satellites in the first half of 2024 ...

Legal avenues are being used to pressure Woodside Energy over its climate strategy.

Australia has announced it will build eight nuclear-powered submarines, known as SSN AUKUS.

Bio-engineered heart tissues have been used to help mice recover from the damage caused by a major heart attack.

The Federal Government says not supporting its climate policies will make matters worse.

Questions have been asked about a new fuel being trialled as an emissions-reduction measure by BHP.

The Queensland Government is buying the $5 billion Copperstring project.

NSW could soon grant coal-miners licences for water from Sydney and Illawarra drinking catchments.

Australian astrophysicists have traced 13 billion years of history by the light of ancient quasars.

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Health authorities, politicians and scientists have been slowly introducing the world to the concept of ‘One Health’ - an all-inclusive approach to health that extends from the human body right through the global environment. 

This year’s Nobel Prizes honour discoveries that unwind our notion of truth, our understanding of ourselves and the human story, the complexities of cells and the very basics of the universe. 

XENOTRANSPLANTATION - sounds like something that would happen to an ill-fated crew member in Star Trek, but it is also a technical term for using non-human parts to treat or enhance our own bodies. 

Even though many of us have been forced indoors, the COVID-19 crisis is eroding our privacy.

I am Tim Hall; a red-blooded, beer-drinking, car-driving Australian male who has no interest in watching sports – at least, not the sports played by humans.

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