National Science Week

Astronauts report their tastes change in space which reduces their appetite and nutrition, so researchers are creating pioneering space food for long-term missions

A new annual global assessment of wildfires warns that climate change has increased the risk of extreme fire weather by about 20 times in some parts of the world

Engineering needs more diversity, but there are almost no role models for women engineers in popular culture

Enjoying food is one of life’s great pleasures – and it’s about way more than just taste, it uses all your senses (yes, even your hearing)

Tully Mahr is one of five Australians heading to an internship with NASA, where the 21-year-old will spend three months researching life’s origins and planet habitability

AI can be fooled into making mistakes, sometimes risking lives, but quantum computing could provide a strong defence

With wildfires and heavy smoke affecting the US and Europe, a new fire management framework can help Australia understand its risk

Palaeontologist Dr Vera Korasidis was torn between becoming a ballerina or unearthing fossils. Fresh from a dig in Wyoming’s Badlands, she knows she made the right choice

Almost half of all women in Mexico experience domestic abuse and the global COVID-19 pandemic has made the situation even worse

Using climate records of the last glacial period from stalagmites, new research confirms that climate changes happened at the same time across the Northern Hemisphere and into the southern tropics