Science

The Orionid meteor shower reaches its peak this week. Here are the tips for seeing it streak over Australia.

You may not know it, but there have been times where an extra second has been added to our days.

The new technology represents a leap forward for body art, but researchers also point out practical applications.

The ongoing incident at a Siberian research institute has parallels in a new book by a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist.

The mother of the 28-year-old dead Russian scientist has dismissed reports her daughter became infected with plague after cracking a test tube.

A top World Health Organisation official says the UN body doesn’t understand how a plague lab researcher became infected before dying.

Roo-ver, as it’s being called, is the latest model of Australia’s first lunar rover and is counting down until its big mission.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has urged Russia to provide more details about the death of a laboratory worker at a research institute.

Russian authorities have quarantined a hospital and are monitoring contacts of an employee at a plague research laboratory who died from pneumonia.

China plans to put its scientists in one of the world’s most remotest places, but is its motive science or a geopolitical power play?