Two thousand tuna fish stomachs analysed at the Secretariat of the Pacific Community in Noumea have revealed the important food web connection between coastal areas and the open ocean.

Australia?s water mains are getting older, and bursting or leaking water pipes are costing business and local residents millions of dollars, but many of these dollars could be saved thanks to some clever computer modeling by a PhD researcher.

Australia?s water mains are getting older, and bursting or leaking water pipes are costing business and local residents millions of dollars, but many of these dollars could be saved thanks to some clever computer modeling by a PhD researcher.

PhD student Fiona Anderson, from Western Australia?s Murdoch University, used the CAT scanner to check 2000 lamb carcases, to accurately work out how much muscle, fat and bone they have.

Anyone who has travelled on trains in Europe or Japan rocketing along in silence and comfort wonders why Australian train continue to trundle at 1940s speeds. It?s not the train or even the lines, but the rocky foundations (or ballast) on which the rails are laid, and results in strict speed limits for trains.

Australia?s innovation performance compared to other OECD countries is 'appalling', according to Professor Robin Batterham, Kernot Professor at the University of Melbourne and former Australian Chief Scientist.

Mobile phones are transforming the way HIV test results are being transmitted to AIDS patients in Africa, a study has shown.

Growing interest in epigenetic therapies for disease highlights the importance of epigenetics in keeping our bodies in check. New insights suggest our genes may have an epigenetic memory, which could also impact the health of our descendents.

I?m staring at my fish tank, watching my numerous, stripy little zebrafish swim around, seemingly without a care in the world. One little fellow appears to poke out from the rest of the shoal. A lone ranger, of sorts. Are the other fish following him; their brave leader corralling the troops? Is he leading the pack or is the pack chasing him? Well, that would all depend on your perception.

The sinking lands ? a list of sovereign states, coastlines and islands that are facing the possibility of the ocean swallowing them up. Sounds like the start of a good fairytale or the end of a rather awful one!

Closed TB surreptitiously invades the bones of the spinal column and here it resides as it gradually digests away the vertebrae.

The prescription of thalidomide, to pregnant women in the 1950s, ranks as one of the worst pharmaceutical blunders in modern medical history. The drug, manufactured by the German company Chemie Grunenthal, was promoted as an anti-emetic and sedative.

The effect of the weather on influenza transmissibility

Progress in the treatment of Parkinson's Disease ?it has been almost 20 years since L-dopa hit the silver screen, making its debut in 1990 in the film Awakenings.

Have you ever been about to send a text or make a call and at that crucial moment your phone just dies? Research suggests that renewable, organic sources of lithium could be used to power batteries and better yet, could be extracted from plants in an energy-efficient manner.

Water scarcity is acute in Asia and is likely to worsen at an accelerating speed as the region develops.

This Thursday Australia?s Chief Scientist Professor Ian Chubb will provide a glimpse into the health of Australian science.

Fact and figures about HIV

Female sex workers are at disproportionately high risk for HIV infection, report researchers.

Parisian researchers have found a common area of the brain which links physical and mental effort, and which is motivated to work harder by the promise of a reward.