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Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges facing humanity. To combat its potentially catastrophic effects, scientists are searching for new technologies that could help the world reach carbon neutrality.

Disadvantaged households have higher rates of smoking, putting pressure on their household budgets, University of Queensland research has found.

University of Bristol lecturer Dr Edson Burton has been announced as the winner of the 2025 Tinniswood Award which recognises the best audio drama script of the year.

This taboo cancer takes 9,500 lives every year in Canada. Manuela Santos, a researcher at the CHUM Research Centre, and her colleagues, Drs. Carole Richard and Roy Hajjar, want that to change. Together, they are studying the influence of the intestinal microbiota on the surgical treatment of colorectal cancer.

Researchers from the University of St Andrews are trialing instruments to be used on the European Mars Rover.

Curtin University researchers will investigate fighting a plant pandemic threatening Australia’s native botanicals and further examine “life’s most essential molecule”, as the result of more than $1.3 million in funding secured in today’s Australian Research Council Linkage Program.

The Western Australian Government has awarded a $2.2 million contract to a University of Adelaide research group to implement UNHaRMED – a natural hazard risk reduction approach and decision support system – in the state.

The University of Hull has secured almost £300,000 of funding to help young people in Vietnam better understand and tackle climate change.

Almost one in four high school students report mental health problems by Year 10, with gender diverse teens and girls living with disadvantage hit the hardest.

Aberdeen school children are using virtual reality to connect with an out of space artefact from NASA’s Get Away Special programme, as part of Robert Gordon University’s (RGUs) innovative Digital Tapestry Project.