An international team of astronomers has discovered a rare square galaxy with a striking resemblance to an emerald cut diamond. The astronomers - from Australia, Germany, Switzerland and Finland - discovered the rectangular shaped galaxy within a group ...

A living germ killer … a green and golden bell frog at Taronga Zoo. It belongs to a species which secretes chemicals that can kill bacterial strains resistant to antibiotic drugs.

A man on a mission ... environmental scientist and explorer Tim Jarvis is preparing for an expedition from South America to Antarctica.

A Perth researcher's short film about embryonic bamboo sharks has been selected to screen at a prestigious US film festival. Survival of the Stillest: Bamboo Sharks, filmed by University of WA shark biologist Ryan Kempster, includes footage of a shark ...

A team of scientists from Monash University and the University of Bristol has found that the tiny teeth of a long-extinct prehistoric fish are the sharpest that have ever been recorded.

Thousands of possible early human settlements have been discovered by archaeologists using computers to scour satellite images. Jason Ur said he had found about 9000 potential new sites in north-eastern Syria.

At the point of combustion, natural gas is the least dirty fossil fuel of all; not only does it produce more heat per kilogram of CO2 produced than any other fossil fuel, power stations burning gas use that heat more efficiently.

Private spaceflight has been inching along for the last several years, but next month may be a major stepping stone for the industry: SpaceX's Dragon capsule is scheduled to launch on April 30 on an unmanned cargo delivery mission to the International ...

by Joe Rao, SPACE.com Skywatching Columnist Across much of the United States, this has been an unusually mild winter, especially for those living east of the Mississippi.

ALBERT Einstein's complete archives - from personal correspondence with half a dozen lovers to notebooks scribbled with his groundbreaking scientific research - are going online for the first time.

By Curt Hopkins | Published March 19, 2012 2:28 PM An international code-a-thon is set to take place in April on seven continents.

Cambridge University has run successful trails that utilised a laser 'unprinter' to remover toner from paper, leaving it fit for reuse ahead of recycling.

"It also tells you just how much discussion is going on and the fact that we still may have a way to go, I believe, on reaching a balance" ... Kevin Humphries. Photo: Brian Harvey THE O'Farrell government's draft policy for resolving land use conflicts ...