Dec 2, 2025

For more than a decade, researchers from Monash University have been working to develop a cheaper, lighter and less environmentally harmful replacement for the ubiquitous lithium-ion battery. They are so convinced they now have the answer, that they have set up a company to bring their findings to market.

Dec 1, 2025

What started out as a bit of powder at the bottom of a test tube has become the stuff of Australia’s first Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 50 years. Professor Richard Robson and his team have led the development of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), the most porous material known.

Oct 4, 2025

Somewhere between backpacking in Cambodia and performing at the Melbourne Comedy Festival with the realisation that science-curious audiences are just about the loveliest folk you can get into a room, 'Science Comedy' was born.

Oct 4, 2025

After completing her PhD, Jen Martin felt frustrated because she did not know how to share what she had discovered. A chance encounter led her to telling her story in classrooms, podcasts and on the radio.

Oct 3, 2025

After high school I asked myself: “What should I study? Maybe science?” During university I asked myself: “What should I major in? Maybe I’ll just do what seems like fun.” But now: "..I have never in my life been more directional and passionate"

Oct 1, 2024

You may have heard of iconic mutualistic relationships between coral and algae, clownfish and sea anemones, and cleaner fish and sharks. However, you probably haven’t heard about the relationship between tiny frogs and tarantulas.

Oct 1, 2024

The Varroa destructor – yes, that’s its scientific name – is a tiny mite that has decimated honeybee colonies around the world. And an outbreak of this destructive parasite has been confirmed for the first time in Victoria near Mildura

Mar 5, 2024

De-extinction is not simply about putting a carbon-copy of an 1800’s thylacine back into the Tasmanian ecosystem. The thylacine co-evolved within that ecosystem over many thousands of years, and its role remains intact. Returning the native apex predator to that environment has the potential to stabilise it, and even save other endangered marsupials.

Dec 6, 2022

Whether “intelligence” can be created within hardware is a fascinating question, and one that remains unanswered despite significant efforts. In contrast, biological intelligence from a neural source offers a “ground truth” of opportunity. As such, the question becomes not ‘if’ general intelligence can arise from something artificial, but ‘how’.