Nine in 10 Australian researchers had their “ideas grant” applications rejected last year, even as Australia’s medical investment fund sits on $5 billion more than it was designed to hold.

Yifat Merbl is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025.

An open-source platform for data-independent acquisition proteomics adapts predicted libraries to experimental settings.

A consortium of manufacturers aims to fund the sorting and processing of soft plastics for reuse – but critics say it will pass costs on to consumers * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Almost three years after the collapse of the national soft plastics collection and recycling program REDCycle, the consumer regulator is set to greenlight an industry-led replacement scheme. But there are concerns product manufacturers and the major supermarkets will shift the program’s costs onto consumers rather than change their own behaviour of producing and stocking vast quantities of soft plastics that mostly end up in landfill. Continue reading...

In the Albanese government’s first term, Education Minister Jason Clare observed that Australia has one of the most segregated education systems in the OECD. What is deeply shocking – though not surpr...

In young people with recent-onset, clinical type 1 diabetes, 2·5 mg/kg and 0·5 mg/kg ATG reduced loss of β-cell function, showing the potential of an affordable, repurposed agent, ATG, in a low and sa...

Identifying biomarkers of functional β-cell loss is an important step in the risk stratification of type 1 diabetes. Genetic risk scores (GRS), generated by profiling an array of single nucleotide pol...

A dedicated disaster recovery force is needed, or else responders and defence forces could be "overwhelmed" by multiple concurrent natural disasters, the National Climate Risk Assessment warns.

The usual suspects are trying to whip up a scare campaign about immigration and housing. Let’s look at the numbers and put them into context.