Australia’s energy market is feeling the chill, but coal and gas have kept the lights on.

Federal ministers will visit industrial heartlands to see how to retain regional jobs.

Australia’s climate is warming fast, bringing harsher fires, hotter seas, and shifting rainfall extremes.

A new CSIRO facility has been created to bring flexible solar tech to market.

Australia’s top corporations have paid record taxes, but over 1,200 still managed to pay nothing.

Australia’s financial services need stronger competition and consumer protections, the ACCC says.

Most Western Australians are unaware kids as young as ten can be jailed.

Mathematicians have challenged the Infinite Monkey Theorem.

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For the last few weeks we have been bogged down in the very Earthly matters of royalty, budgets, politics, humanity and celebrity - all good prompts to look away, up into the infinite. 

Health authorities, politicians and scientists have been slowly introducing the world to the concept of ‘One Health’ - an all-inclusive approach to health that extends from the human body right through the global environment. 

This year’s Nobel Prizes honour discoveries that unwind our notion of truth, our understanding of ourselves and the human story, the complexities of cells and the very basics of the universe. 

XENOTRANSPLANTATION - sounds like something that would happen to an ill-fated crew member in Star Trek, but it is also a technical term for using non-human parts to treat or enhance our own bodies. 

I am Tim Hall; a red-blooded, beer-drinking, car-driving Australian male who has no interest in watching sports – at least, not the sports played by humans.

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