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14 November 2025

Do e-cigarettes compromise children's human rights?

Australia; International; ACT The Australian National University,University of Bath, UK The BMJ
Expert Reaction
13 November 2025

EXPERT REACTION: Libs dump net-zero

Australia; NSW; QLD; SA; ACT Australian Science Media Centre
Briefing
13 November 2025

NEWS BRIEFING: Global carbon emissions up again in 2025

Australia; International; ACT CSIRO Global Carbon Budget 2025
12 November 2025

Online program helps bowel cancer survivors manage their fears about cancer returning

Australia; International; NSW; SA; ACT The University of New South Wales,The Australian National University,The University of Sydney,Flinders University,University Hospital of Southern Denmark JAMA Network Open
5 November 2025

New Australian clinical standards for fracture prevention to address the unacceptable crisis in osteoporosis care

Australia; New Zealand; NSW; VIC; QLD; SA; WA; TAS; ACT SOS Fracture Alliance
30 October 2025

Ancient lichen paved the way for plants and animals to thrive on Earth

Australia; International; ACT The Australian National University Science Advances
29 October 2025

Twin black hole mergers reveal secrets of cosmic evolution

Australia; ACT ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGRav) Astrophysical Journal Letters
Expert Reaction
24 October 2025

EXPERT REACTION: Scientists respond to Labor's Environmental Protection Reform Bill

Australia; VIC; QLD; ACT Australian Science Media Centre
24 October 2025

Peatlands’ ‘huge reservoir’ of carbon at risk of release

Australia; ACT The Australian National University,Cornell University Science
Expert Reaction
23 October 2025

EXPERT REACTION: Challenges and opportunities with Australia's critical minerals agreement

Australia; NSW; VIC; SA; WA; ACT Australian Science Media Centre
23 October 2025

Advancement for people with Parkinson’s in light therapy trial

Australia; NSW; ACT The University of Sydney,The Australian National University,SYMBYX PTY LTD Journal of Clinical Medicine
21 October 2025

Traffic vibrations help scientists dig deep into Lake George’s seismic past

Australia; NSW; ACT The Australian National University Seismological Research Letters
17 October 2025

New insights into how salt gathers at common solvent surfaces

Australia; NSW; SA; ACT Flinders University,The University of Newcastle,The Australian National University,The University of New England,CSIRO Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
16 October 2025

Australia’s rainforests first to switch from carbon sink to source

Australia; International; NSW; SA; ACT Western Sydney University,The University of Adelaide,The Australian National University,CSIRO,James Cook University Nature
13 October 2025

‘Far from negligible’: New Australian fossil fuel site will have major impact on people and the planet

Australia; International; NSW; VIC; QLD; SA; WA; ACT The Australian National University,The University of Adelaide,James Cook University,The University of New South Wales,The University of Melbourne Climate Action
10 October 2025

Young birds learn from older siblings, not their parents

Australia; International; ACT The Australian National University,Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour, Germany PLOS Biology
10 October 2025

Discovery of binary stars the first step in creating "movie of the universe"

Australia; ACT The Australian National University PASA Letters
8 October 2025

Nature inspires tech to help recover trillions of dollars in critical resources

Australia; ACT The Australian National University Mine Closure 2025
7 October 2025

Global efficiency record set for large triple-junction perovskite solar cell

Australia; NSW; ACT The University of Sydney,The University of New South Wales,The Australian National University Nature Nanotechnology
6 October 2025

Past 'treatment' of gender diverse children was 'conversion therapy' which delayed self-acceptance and caused long-term harm

Australia; New Zealand; NSW; VIC; WA; ACT La Trobe University,The University of Melbourne,Monash University,The University of Sydney,Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) Medical Journal of Australia
Expert Reaction
2 October 2025

EXPERT REACTION: Celebrated primatologist Jane Goodall has died

Australia; International; VIC; SA; ACT Australian Science Media Centre
1 October 2025

Call to reduce the places Aussies can buy cigarettes

Australia; NSW; VIC; ACT The Australian National University,The University of New South Wales,The University of Melbourne,The University of Sydney Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
30 September 2025

Nature weaves a 3D tapestry, giving butterfly its green wings

Australia; NSW; WA; ACT Murdoch University,The University of Western Australia,The University of Sydney,The Australian National University PNAS
28 September 2025

Low-cost drug shows promise for patients with life-threatening respiratory infections

Australia; VIC; ACT The Australian National University,Monash University eClinicalMedicine
25 September 2025

Cracking the code on using nature to stop floods

Australia; NSW; ACT The Australian National University
20 September 2025

Poorer communities felt the worst well-being impacts from Australia’s 2019–2020 Black Summer fires

Australia; ACT The Australian National University One Earth
Expert Reaction
18 September 2025

EXPERT REACTION: Australia sets 2035 emissions reduction target at 62-70%

Australia; NSW; VIC; ACT Australian Science Media Centre
18 September 2025

Australia to lead first-ever United Nations indoor air quality global pledge

Australia; ACT Australian Academy of Science
16 September 2025

Oldest evidence of mummification uncovered

Australia; International; ACT The Australian National University PNAS
16 September 2025

Sun safety research legacy continues with new insights into vitamin D and sunscreen use

Australia; VIC; QLD; WA; ACT QIMR Berghofer,The University of Western Australia,The University of Queensland,The Australian National University,Cancer Council Victoria British Journal of Dermatology
12 September 2025

Island ant communities show signs of unseen ‘insect apocalypse’

Australia; Pacific; ACT The Australian National University Science
4 September 2025

Providing a roadmap to plug national science capability gaps

Australia; ACT Australian Academy of Science N/A
28 August 2025

No consistency for wetlands conservation policy in the Murray Darling Basin

Australia; NSW; VIC; SA; ACT The Australian National University Marine and Freshwater Research
28 August 2025

Local news services need to adapt or face extinction

Australia; VIC; ACT RMIT University,University of Canberra
Expert Reaction
22 August 2025

EXPERT REACTION: Workers around the world at risk of harm from increasing heat stress

Australia; International; SA; ACT World Health Organization (WHO),World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
21 August 2025

Abrupt Antarctic changes could have ‘catastrophic consequences for generations to come’, experts warn

Australia; NSW; VIC; QLD; TAS; ACT The Australian National University,The University of New South Wales,Monash University,James Cook University,University of Wollongong,University of Tasmania,Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) Nature

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