SCIENCE

Two decades after its Galileo spacecraft first flirted with Jupiter, NASA is set to resume its love affair with the gas giant with a new mission.

Scientists discover Australia’s most complete dinosaur skeleton, Kunbarrasaurus, a primitive type of the famed ankylosaur.

In a controversial claim, a French scientist claims to have found the hidden portrait of another woman under Leonardo Da Vinci’s world-famous Mona Lisa painting.

Mankind may well be a step closer to time travel, with Australian scientists successfully sending particles of light into the past.

In a significant discovery, astronomers have spotted some monstrous baby galaxies nestled in dark matter.

A new research that shows that more than two particles can also get entangled at the same time.

An increasing number of Australian science laboratories are using live dogs for experiments and are even killing many of these animals later.

An Indian-origin scientist has developed an open-source 3D software that can track the brain development of an embryo.

Scientists say that the current rate of water consumption is not sustainable.

A new method could significantly help the yeast-dependent industry to make new flavours of products, such as beer, wine and cheese, and potentially produce an entirely new product.

Tayna, or the “first-born” as it’s called in the Aymara language, is the faintest object ever seen in the early universe, having existed some 13.8 billion years ago, astronomers have discovered.

Scientists have warned of a serious threat to communication and energy systems, on which life depends on Earth, from superflares from the Sun.

Scientists found the connection between slow gait and the protein buildup associated with Alzheimer’s disease.

Cosmic signals are believed to be the latest sign of communication from neighbouring galaxies.

The world’s 10 percent of richest people produce half of the greenhouse gas emissions, while the poorest half contribute a mere 10 percent.

Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates have launched a new group that will help mobilise investment in transformative energy solutions and compensate for the insufficient global funding for tackling climate change.

Even after detailed brain scans of 1400 men and women, scientists failed to find patterns that would differentiate male brain from female brain.

The Tonsil Orchid has avoided human eye for more than 30 years while the rare tree snail has never been collected live before.

Panama disease will be the cause of banana’s extinction, according to a study published in PLOS Pathogen.

Scientists have found a way to prolong youth, through studies on roundworms.

Les Mills' CEO weighs in on the climate change debate with his theory of "globesity."

Authorities have issued an orange level alert in Beijing, the worst smog level recorded in the city this year.

Japanese scientists in Utsunomiya University Center for Optical Research and Education have created touchable holograms.

The Australian prime minister did not sign the fossil fuel agreement at the Paris climate summit.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has reinstated emission cuts of 26 to 28 percent by 2030 at the Paris conference on climate change.

Japan’s decision to start whaling early next year has been condemned by Australia and other nations although Japan is defending itself saying its revised whaling programme is scientific.

The Bureau of Meteorology has asked people not to use the telephone during a thunderstorm.

A team of scientists from ETH Zürich turns gold into foam.

The real hard work starts at COP21 as delegates agree to emission reduction target to limit global warming.