Stories about: Rock

Astronaut Andy Thomas opens UNSW's new Australian Centre for Astrobiology and gives education funding a serve.

Fossil find suggests bats evolved the ability to fly before developing echolocation.

Studying the symbiotic relationship between legumes and nitrogen-fixing rhizobia bacteria raises the possibility of a potential application in cereals.

Interest rates, evolutionary neighbours, antibodies get together and sorting sperm from the chaff.

A new species of extremophiles has been discovered in America's Yellowstone National Park.

'Bootcamp' for Brisbane researchers interested in learning more about the business of commercialisation.

Sydney researchers have identified the components of telomerase, the enzyme associated with uncontrolled cell growth, and have come up with a nifty method for purifying it.

Nowhere is the potential of agricultural biotechnology and GM crops more obvious than in Africa, as Graeme O'Neill reports.

ANU researchers have uncovered a neat little system to stop DNA replication in its tracks.

Scientists at the University of Queensland have linked maternal vitamin D deficiency in pregnancy to abnormal foetal brain development and an increased the risk of behavioural problems, schizophrenia and multiple sclerosis (MS) later in life.