Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, Georg Nagel were awarded the prize for their work on light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.

With 3.5 million households experiencing food insecurity last year, food banks are struggling to meet demand, while some communities can’t even access them.

Meet Macquarie University alumni Jane Caro and Kate Caro, a mother-daughter duo whose stories are shaped by resilience, feminism, a challenge to ageism and a shared belief in the power of mature-age e...

After the Trump administration cut off food from the third-largest refugee camp in the world, thousands of families faced impossible choices as their children starved.

This year, the breadth of the pine beetle’s footprint in Colorado and the intensity of its attack is expected to expand exponentially.

Kelvin waves are not like tsunamis, and they don't curl over and crash on the beach. A better image is water sloshing in the bathtub or a swimming pool during an earthquake. In the ocean, they are bul...

Sixty-three years later, the 7 Up series draws to a close

Dry winters and a warming climate are taking a toll on centuries-old ice in the Alps, researchers say, with about 20 percent of Swiss glacial ice melting since 2021.

Bogong moths have been in decline since the 1980s, but this spring the insects have been sighted in the thousands across southeastern Australia, delighting scientists.

"Heavy is the bear that wears the crown. Like really heavy." | After a week of fierce competition, Backpack emerged victorious as Fat Bear Week champion, the heftiest bear of Alaska's Katmai National ...

If all the ice in the Wilkes Subglacial Basin melted, it would raise global sea levels 3 to 4 metres. It happened before – at temperatures we’re heading towards

Researchers were able to show that over hundreds of thousands of years, the gentoo penguin has diverged into four distinct evolutionary lineages.

Research suggests all of the world’s songbirds can be traced back to Australia.

From the Arctic to Europe, the Americas and Australia, the impacts of the climate crisis are wide-ranging and evident, including

Behind the stories of bombings and mass deaths, the everyday challenges facing Palestinians living under siege portray a quieter tragedy we rarely hear

Like much of the Southwest, the home of the “perfect peach” is facing the greatest Colorado River crisis in recent memory.

After the Trump administration cut off food from the third-largest refugee camp in the world, thousands of families faced impossible choices as their children starved.

Hawaii is on its third close call this season.

Powered by sun and wind, the uncrewed vehicle will collect data to help Australian scientists better understand how oceans absorb emissions

From the Arctic to Europe, the Americas and Australia, the impacts of the climate crisis are wide-ranging and evident, including

From the Arctic to Europe, the Americas and Australia, the impacts of the climate crisis are wide-ranging and evident, including

Call them fat. Call them corpulent. Call them rotund. The bears are back in town and bigger than ever.

Agencies in at least 15 states have reported increased calls this year, as drought and population growth drive the animals closer to people in search of food.

The annual tournament celebrates the brown bears of Katmai National Park as they bulk up before hibernation.

Australia has joined a small group of nations in reaching a turning point in the effort to end AIDS, although the benefits are still not shared equally across communities.

Ice from Greenland and Antarctica is flowing faster into the ocean, a new study shows, causing sea levels to rise.

Tetsuo Sato is one of 100,000 Japanese who are now over 100 years old. He plans on celebrating his 107th birthday at a hot springs hotel.

As global temperature increase shoots past 1.5 degrees Celsius, the vulnerable countries that fought for that Paris Agreement target face a brutal new reality.

The industrial revolution provided the impetus, the income and the time to do it.

The All Blacks' ceremonial pre-game dance will be showcased in Baltimore tomorrow, and comes freighted with history - and controversy

The medieval masterpiece has traveled from France to England for a once-in-a-lifetime show. It is not what our critic Jason Farago expected.

"Staff need to feel valued as the human beings they are, rather than a cog in the machine." A lack of gentleness, real listening, and empathy in healthcare is harmful to patients and staff, writes Su...

Introduction by Croakey: The rise of far-right populism in Australia and globally presents significant threats to health and wellbeing, especially

Introduction by Croakey: The rise of far-right populism in Australia and globally presents significant threats to health and wellbeing, especially

Proponents of walking barefoot outdoors claim it has health benefits, but experts say the science is muddy. I faced my dirty-feet fears and visited the Barefoot Trail to investigate.

It is too hard for medical researchers to launch clinical trials.

Introduction by Croakey: Many groups have been sounding the alarm about the Federal Government’s planned private health insurance reforms, which

This year’s Ig Nobel prizes, awarded on 3 September, include a biomechanics prize for creating a precise definition of kissing and a soil-science award for investigating what happens if you bury and then dig up 1,000 pairs of underwear. https://t.co/K0W5VlNr0p

Helen Paterson’s work on advancing how police and courts understand memory is recognised in prestigious Eureka prizes * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Memory is an imperfect thing: research shows that recollections of single events – a purse being snatched, say – differ to those about repeated or ongoing events, such as incidents of domestic and family violence. “What our research shows is that compared to a single-event witness, a repeated-event witness tends to report more gist-like details, the overall details of what typically would happen, and the things that remain constant between the episodes,” said Helen Paterson, an associate professor in forensic psychology at the University of Sydney. Continue reading...