In our land of drought and flooding rains, better water management should feature in every federal budget. Thankfully, the budget handed down by Treasurer Jim Chalmers on Tuesday delivers it.

One of the world's leading physicists who is helping unlock the Universe's most complex mysteries is the first Australian to win the prestigious Blaise Pascal Medal in recognition of her incredible research and leadership in science.

The atmospheric concentrations of methane are now almost triple pre-industrial levels, and rising swiftly. Cutting it back would significantly help limit climate change.

The identification of new psychoactive substances – drugs made to resemble established illicit drugs – presents a major challenge when pill-testing.

Getting meaningful environmental measures into the wellbeing budget won’t be easy. And tokenism won’t do.

Scientists from ANU have detected a mysterious new recreational drug not seen in Australia before, nor toxicologically described anywhere else.

Helen Osmond has watched the ins and outs of one superb fairy-wren population for three decades.

Leading researchers are calling for a cease to native forest logging if Australia wants to meet its net zero targets in coming decades.

ANU will lend its unique expertise in plant biology to an ambitious mission led by Australian space start-up Lunaria One that aims to grow plants on the moon by as early as 2025.