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 ...

Nearly all applications for public research grants – 86 per cent – go unfunded. So a businessman has taken matters into his own hands to get quality research the money it needs. George Crones is founder and leader of crowdfunding ...

Mandatory 'back doors' into secure, encrypted data could compromise university research worldwide, a cybersecurity expert has warned. US and UK law enforcement and intelligence agencies have been pushing for all encrypted data to have a back door that government can ...

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 ...

The Australian Research Council has splashed out $38.6 million to 50 new research projects via the latest round of the Future Fellows scheme. The scheme allocates money to provide four-year fellowships to mid-career researchers. The federal education minister, Simon Birmingham, said this ...

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 University of New South Wales has received a multimillion-dollar grant to develop a centre for cyber-security and into its flagship quantum computing project. The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has established a $1.6 million, five-year partnership with UNSW to develop a ...