Australian life expectancy hits all-time high - 27 Oct 2016
Life-expectancy has hit a fresh all-time high with typical newborn girls now expected to live 84.5 years and a typical boys 80.4 years, up from 83.3 a...

How authorities are fighting the coming plague of mosquitoes in Melbourne and Victoria - 27 Oct 2016
MELBURNIANS, be warned — mobs of mosquitoes are on the way. Experts are predicting a bumper season of the stinging insects after recent heavy rain an...

Sydney and Melbourne house prices hit all-time high in September quarter - 27 Oct 2016
Lower interest rates and a strong local economy push Sydney’s median house price to $1,068,303, while Melbourne prices reach...

Melbourne outmuscles Sydney in Nature science ranking - 27 Oct 2016
Melbourne has pipped Sydney as Australia’s top science city, with more of the southern capital’s research institutions publishing their work in the wo...

Renewables usurp old king coal, but we should be talking about 'clean energy' - 26 Oct 2016
Our week of energy tipping points continues with news from the International Energy Agency that a surge of investment in wind and solar generation thr...

'A problem of hidden hazards': Common fragrances a public health problem - 26 Oct 2016
The air-freshener in the bathroom at work automatically sprays an artificial, saccharine scent that assaults your nostrils. I have always assumed...

Carbon Capture on Einstein A Go-Go - 25 Oct 2016
25.10.2016 Listen back as Professor Paul A. Webley from the Peter Cook Centre for Carbon Capture and Storage Research discusses the new carbon storag...

Three household products you could cut to help the environment - 25 Oct 2016
Some chemical substances in our home are unnecessary and can have devastating consequences for the environment — we asked an expert to identify the to...

Unaffordability leads to a perfect housing storm - 25 Oct 2016
Dan Paton looks like a typical young Australian but the truth is he is a definite oddity. The Perth surveyor, aged 24, is the first of his mates to b...

Energy Hack backs the bright sparks - 24 Oct 2016
Energy Hack 2016, a two-day brainstorming blitz that bunched together “hackers, hustlers and hipsters”, wound down on Sunday night at the University o...

Getting closer to human specimens thanks to body donors, the internet and a hip new gallery space - 24 Oct 2016
Marvelling at a skull from an Egyptian mummified head will no longer remain the domain of students. A replica of the ancient cranium has been printed...

The sound of lost languages - 24 Oct 2016
Image: Some young Aboriginal people have never heard the language their ancestors spoke (ABC News: James Dunlevie) It's estimated that 300 Indigenous...

Clinton, Trump bump heads in final US presidential debate - 20 Oct 2016
SBS World News Radio: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has again refused to commit to accepting the result of November's presidential...

Innovative marketing campaigns shine at awards for Marketing Excellence - 20 Oct 2016
Thursday, 20th October 2016 at 2:43pm The Australian Marketing Institute has announced the winners for the 34th Awards for Marketing Excellence, in f...

Asylum Seeker Amnesty - 20 Oct 2016
20/10/2016 Harry Minas, Director of The Melbourne Refugee Studies Program at Melbourne University, discusses the Amnesty International’s Report conde...