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

Scientific innovation in Macquarie labs can help drive an emerging – and lucrative – biomanufacturing industry.

Light pollution is doing more than obscuring our view of the universe: it could actually be bad for our health.

Research into bees' brains has revealed insights into the impact of stress, using a combination of old-school observational science and powerful computer models.

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).

Professor Dali Kaafar, Scientific Director, Optus Macquarie University Cyber Security Hub and Leader of Data61 Information Security and Privacy Group, explains.

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?

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.