Science and Technology

Microphone recordings from NASA's Perseverance rover have turned up more than 50 instances of lightning on the red planet over the past four years, a new study finds.

It has long been a mystery why antibiotics reduces the effectiveness of some vaccines, but researchers believe bacteria in the gut may play a pivotal role.

There is now a global race to build humanoids that can walk, talk, reason, lift, carry, fetch, stack and generally operate in a human environment. 

While last week's stunning auroras delighted many people across Australia, a massive solar storm that hit last year squeezed Earth's protective shield to a fifth of its size, according to new satellite data.

Moss has the potential to provide food for astronauts of the future, according to a study that exposed one of Earth's oldest plants to the extremes of space travel. 

Elon Musk hinted at his dream for a battery-electric pick-up truck for years before, finally, on November 21, 2019, Tesla unveiled a prototype for its Cybertruck.  

Meta warns it will start axing the Meta accounts of under 16s from December 4. Here's how you can download your data before then.

The prime minister, when in opposition, accused the Coalition of "hollowing out" the CSIRO. Now, following the announcement 350 research positions at the organisation will be cut, he is being accused of being "worse than Abbott".

Artificial intelligence could be trained using the sensitive health data of European citizens under proposed changes to the EU's rules on the sector.

Australia is known as a country of innovators, but with a combination of brain drain, continuous cuts, and a loss of critical science projects, is Australia losing its edge?

Five years after Rio Tinto destroyed a 47,000-year-old sacred rock shelter to expand an iron ore mine, an ambitious rebuild is underway drawing inspiration all the way from France.

As Australia races to scale up refining of rare earths, a thorny question looms: where does all the toxic wastewater go?

The huge range of dog breeds that exists today is often thought of as a modern phenomenon, but new research suggests this vast diversity started thousands of years ago.

Despite rising CO2 emissions, there are hopes for exponential growth in renewable energy take-up as major emitters like China near a peak for greenhouse gas creation.

Astronomers have discovered the famous Seven Sisters or Pleiades star cluster, which is featured in many Aboriginal songlines, is surrounded by a huge, hidden stellar family.

Some 2,000 years ago, a Roman ship sank off the coast of Sardinia. Now its cargo is being used to search for elusive phenomena like dark matter.

James Watson, the controversial American biologist whose 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA ushered in the age of genetics, has died.

The same Chinese company that makes electric buses now under review in Denmark and Norway also has electric buses on Australian roads.

Artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT are embedded in modern life, with some Australians using them to help work through PTSD and toxic work environments.

Animals and plants aren't automatically taken off most national and state extinct species list in Australia if they are rediscovered, leaving them without protection as threatened species.