How do plants ‘know’ when to begin flowering in spring? Dr Jean Finnegan of the CSIRO explores the epigenetic mechanisms that help flowering plants weather the winter.

A study of the ancestors to modern koalas shows they had a different diet but could produce 'bellowing' calls.

$11.2 million Victorian Recombinant Proteins Feeder Facility opens at Monash University.

Early-stage biotechnology companies were hardest hit by the GFC, but NemGenix has made it through by embracing every form of funding available.

Australia's newest and most powerful supercomputer, set to rocket into the world's top 40, will be launched in Canberra today.

Bacterium found to catalyse the biomineralisation of gold. Could lead to new biosensors.

The Australian Museum Eureka Prizes showcase research done by researchers in the life sciences.

New environmentally-friendly biotechnology facility opened in Canberra.

CSIRO scientists test their e-noses up against the superior sniffers of the common house fly.

Sequencing the DNA of a woolly mammoth frozen in permafrost and the shortly to be published genome of the Neanderthal is exciting – and very popular – science. And while Australia doesn’t have the right geological history for momentous work like this, we do have the ability to solve some interesting local questions, such as what wiped out our megafauna.