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The recent spill of about a million litres of uranium ore and acid has been used as a platform to call for the end of uranium mining at the Ranger site.

Broad opposition is forming to combat attempts by the Federal Government to introduce a ‘Direct Action’ policy to deal with climate change.

The representative body for Australia’s smaller and independent service stations says the end of shopper dockets would be good, but they are not the only thing making the fuel market uneven.

Approval has been given to a new 100MW wind farm in South Australia, with Pacific Hydro set to embark on the 42-turbine $240 million build.

A rural Queensland council has become the latest to embrace a digital approach to local governance, launching an app that allows people to lodge queries and complaints with incredible speed.

A push is on to make sure many Tasmanian residents do not miss out on National Broadband Network connections they had been promised.

One billionaire has made a strikingly optimistic investment, banking on an invention which does not yet exist.

There has been some word on the public-private arrangement planned for the new $1.8 billion Sunshine Coast University Hospital.

Trials are underway in Melbourne of a possible new blood test for mothers, which can check for changing oxygen levels in utero.

A GP has been charged and will now have to give a consent form to all his patients, after falsely claiming he could cure cancer with green tea.

Researchers are working on a way to re-enable the creation of a form of foetal haemoglobin, which could lead to a new therapy for sickle cell disease (SCD).

A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet, but new findings suggest a rose smelled by any other nose would actually smell quite different.

An award has been given for a research project looking at how new jobs, the journey to work and the meaning of home play a role for men adjusting to being fired.

Crossroads are common on the path of life and everyone has different motivations for the direction they choose, but a new study suggests many of our choices are made by random fluctuations in the brain.

One of the oldest challenges in the teaching profession is keeping students interested in maths and science - this is as true in Australian schools as it is in German ones, according to researchers in a new study aimed at boosting kids’ interest in the art of arithmetic.

Schools today are quick to roll-out the tablet PCs in the hope of finding a key to unlock new levels of interest and engagement, but a new study has asked whether the push for hand-held tech in the classroom is a help or hindrance.

Anyone wishing to re-enact the favourite past time of Scrooge McDuck may soon get their chance, with a Swiss bank auctioning-off a pile of 8 million coins.

Everybody knows someone with the memory of a goldfish or the grace of a boar, but it is important to note that we are animals too – and for the most part not that much smarter than our biological neighbours.

Some people are capable of incredible feats of perseverance and motivations, while others give up as soon as the going looks tough – but what if a switch in the brain could be flipped, causing an individual to anticipate a challenge and possess a strong motivation to overcome it.

Anti-trust regulators have fined six big banks A$2.5 billion for their role in rigging international interest rates, with an ongoing investigation to shine a sliver of light on the unknown mechanisms underlying global economies.