Premature babies are doing better than ever before, but survival comes with hidden costs.

What can we gain by collecting the genomes of every animal, plant, fungi and protozoa species on the planet?

Even today, schizophrenia is most often defined by its psychotic symptoms. Have we been getting it wrong all this time?

A small island off New Zealand, renowned for its birdlife, stays pristine thanks to the bruising efforts of a small band of weed-spotters.

From electrified frogs to salmon in MRI machines, aquatic animals have been at the cutting edge of neuroscience for decades.

Everywhere an animal goes, it leaves behind microscopic samples of its DNA. Can we exploit these traces for a greater good?

In a confined space, evolution sets off in some unusual directions.

A captive breeding program may help prevent the aquarium trade from eradicating its most illustrious client.

The leafy seadragon is like nothing else in the ocean, a weird and understudied fish that has enthralled many a diver in Australia’s southern coastal waters.

To effectively study diseases, we must first replicate their processes and symptoms outside the human body.

Our brains can evoke pain even in the complete absence of bodily damage. How do we manage this process when it becomes harmful?

Every year in Australia, scientists use more than a million marine animals for research and teaching. Untangling the ethics of their use is a slippery business.

CRISPR technology may hand a lifeline to patients living under the terminal cloud of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

If other members of the animal kingdom can shut down their bodies over winter, then why can't we?

Before you stir almond milk into your morning coffee, you may want to consider its nutritional value and environmental impacts.

Although it gets some bad press, the process of irradiating food is well understood and tightly regulated.

For centuries, the simple science of concave and convex lenses has helped us correct refractive error, a leading cause of visual impairment.

Satellite imagery gives us an invaluable bird’s eye view of how ecosystems have responded to decades of human influence.

A century of cortical cartography has helped neurologists understand how the human brain perceives and interprets our complex surroundings.

The gang wars that we often associate with a Hollywood movie franchise are happening in your very own backyard

With teeth, claws and a strong sense of smell, introduced mammals cause huge problems in New Zealand. To eliminate them once and for all, should we start tweaking their genes?

The next weapons in our ongoing fight against disease may come from an unexpected source

With the right kind of sensory organs, a tremor in the earth can become an entire conversation.

On its own, each of our neurons is a dumb oscillator. But when they fire together in their billions, something incredible begins to happen.

A small subset of HIV-infected patients do not progress to AIDS, even after decades of infection. What can we learn from these anomalies?

When you see a tiny baby or animal, do you ever get the urge to squeeze something? You may be one of many people who experience cute aggression.

Recent rumours of the manta ray's taxonomic demise have been greatly exaggerated.

Often maligned and misunderstood, the spotted hyena is one of Africa's most impressive and adaptable predators.

Changing how clinical trials are designed and reported could save billions of dollars.

Every night, we sign away eight hours of our lives to be spent in slumber. Shouldn't we be doing something better with our time?