Cigarette maker again serves as 'cash printing press' to supplement finance ministry

Science is elastic. Its findings can be stretched to sell useless gadgets and to sow mistrust. Often, this distortion of the truth is done outside of academia by merchants of doubt, spiritual influenc...

South Australian authorities confirm the country's first H5N1 bird flu in a common dolphin, which was found dead on the Fleurieu Peninsula.

A crackdown on American academia by the Trump administration has handed Canadian universities a rare opportunity to lure some top researchers north.

The US tech giant behind popular AI chatbot Claude wanted to meet with the NSW government earlier this year about locating up to five gigawatts of data centres in the state, the ABC can reveal.

Some comments on a proposed OMB research rule have been mysteriously removed from a public-facing government webpage.

A groundbreaking study hints at a hazy boundary between “life” and “non-life,” as well as two distinct origins of biology on Earth

We are delighted to announce the finalists for our 2026 Medical Journalists’ Association Awards. As ever, the MJA Awards recognise outstanding reporting across medicine, health and science. Our independent...

DHS was sued Tuesday over a sweeping policy change that would limit how long foreign students and scholars can remain in the U.S.

Young researchers have long come to the U.S. for academic training, but a combination of Chinese money and U.S. restrictions is shifting the balance.

The US and Europe led the antibiotic era but then outsourced the means to sustain it

The former military lawyer was convicted in 2024 for stealing and sharing top-secret defence material with journalists.

Meddling to improve perceptions of China abroad cannot obscure 'gray Chinese' in Thailand

The targeted vaccination of 5,000 penguins is claimed to be the largest wild bird vaccination program undertaken globally.

Abstract. Peanut allergy is caused by aberrant IgE-driven immune responses to a well-defined set of peptide sequences within allergenic proteins. Oral and

Jaw-dropping patient videos and miraculous testimonials ignited a frenzy in China over a technique that aims to improve drainage from the brain. Now it is entering trials worldwide.

Zhu, who rose to become premier, spearheaded China’s entry into the WTO.

Late last month, Caixin published an update on the case, prompting commentator and former investigative journalist Chu Chaoxin to post a belated but heartfelt

The rise of artificial intelligence and the widespread use of domestic and international large language models (LLMs) have had a profound impact, for better

There is no evidence for a lab origin of SARS-CoV-2, so commenters default to meta-discourse and accuse scientists of coverups, for which there is no evidence either. So far, available data and scient...

Researchers found that widely used lab machines produced digital DNA files that are vulnerable to tampering.

China’s DeepSeek is planning a massive artificial-intelligence data center in Inner Mongolia, according to people familiar with the matter, an ambitious move in computing infrastructure from the startup that’s shown it can compete with the leading AI models of Silicon Valley.

The NSW government is introducing laws that would give police officers broad power to compel individuals to provide access to their digital devices for scanning and downloading.

A remote mining town gripped by fear saw hundreds of suspected cases before the government declared an outbreak, report says

iStock A lawsuit filed under the U.S. False Claims Act accuses four major publishers of perpetrating a decade-long scheme to defraud the government by charging exorbitant article processing charges…

Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals

International drug companies are threatening to remove medicines from the market if Australia doesn’t offer them a better price. Here’s what’s at stake.

George Church moved to paper’s acknowledgements section, triggering exodus

Hundreds of thousands of scientists, including Nobel laureates, warn that changes to the way federal grants are approved would greatly damage American science

George Church moved to paper’s acknowledgements section, triggering exodus

The initiative will focus on diabetes and weight management, conversational artificial intelligence that helps patients, and digital tools such as QR codes and apps that register patients for check-in...

Shanghai’s municipal health authorities have issued a “negative list” of nine types of online behaviour that doctors should avoid, from unlawful advertising to criticising government policy, in what t...