Genelle Weule

Caesarean sections are overused in more than 60 per cent of the world’s nations, including Australia. See how we compare to other countries.

A long-term study of Australian biology students reveals how attitudes towards creationism and evolution have shifted.

Do you ever feel dizzy when you think of the incomprehensible scale of space? Let’s see if our quiz gives you cosmic vertigo.

On July 25, 1978 the birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first “test tube baby”, changed science and the world forever. We look at the past, present and future of IVF and the world this revolutionary technology evolved in.

This quiz is as hard as the diamond rain on Neptune — see if you can do better than the average Earthling!

Scientists go to painstaking lengths to test long-held beliefs about the structure of hair to get an answer to one of life’s curly questions.

Aries or Taurus? What are the zodiac constellations, what does each constellation contain, and when can you spot them in the sky?

An analysis of global data suggests that biodiversity loss across more than half the world’s surface is substantial enough to question the ability of many ecosystems to support human societies.

Australia’s amateur astrophotographers put their talents on show at the David Malin Awards, which honours the best photos and timelapse videos of the night sky taken by cameras or telescopes in a range of technical categories.

Why do we need such a big telescope? What will it look like? How will it be built? How will it handle the data?