Three new recreational drugs that have never been reported in Australia before have been identified by chemists at Australia’s only fixed-site drug checking service, CanTEST, located in Canberra.

Physicists measured nuclei bouncing off one another, without sufficient energy to overcome the electrostatic repulsion between the two positively charged nuclei, and found that after the collision, the nuclei had turned into different elements.

Record heat across the world profoundly impacted the global water cycle in 2023, contributing to severe storms, floods, megadroughts and bushfires, new research from The Australian National University (ANU) shows.

What is the universe made of? This question has driven astronomers for hundreds of years.

In the search for optimum hydrogen production researchers have found decorating their electrodes with tiny metal flowers boosts the process significantly.

A new snapshot of an ancient, far-off galaxy could help scientists understand how it formed and the origins of our own Milky Way.

A new report shows what the Australian public thinks about Australia’s investment and activities in space and the results are eye opening.

Isobel Bender is graduating with a PhB (Honours) having made what her supervisor Professor Jamie Pittock calls “an unprecedented impact on the public good as an undergraduate researcher”.

“I see maths as more of an art than a science,” Grover Lancaster-Cole says.