Australia has a once-in-a-generation chance to transform its health care if we spend some of the just-announced Medical Research Future Fund’s $240 million for Frontier Science on Artificial Intelligence (AI).

A discovery about the eyesight of sharks has led to a real-life application that could save lives.

The quest to understand how sharks perceive their world has led Macquarie researchers to develop a surfboard with lights that could save the lives of surfers and divers.

Does the ant foraging for your crumbs feel better when she finds one? Do bees like the taste of nectar? Or are insects merely tiny robots?

Our smart vehicles are increasingly vulnerable and it’s time for stronger safety standards, warns security expert John Baird.

Did you know that Hobbits exist outside of fiction? Recent discoveries have thrown a spanner in the work of how we once understood the timeline of human evolution.

Sharks loom large and menacingly in the Australian imagination but new research shows that, just like humans, sharks have friends.

Science fiction is becoming reality as researchers move closer to creating the first synthetic complex life form.

Advancements in protein screening developed at Macquarie are uncovering how carbohydrates are involved in everything from the flu to infertility.

Macquarie astrophysicists explain how an explosion triggered by the collision of neutron stars 130 million years ago was detected for the first time, and why this astonishing event has made global headlines.

Professor Richard Mildren won the Eureka Prize for Outstanding Science in Safeguarding Australia for his work on high-powered lasers.

The most advanced surgical robot available – the da Vinci Xi – heralds a new era of minimally invasive cardiac surgery.