Kathleen Ferguson

'Clean Tok' has become a popular sub-community of social media.

The winner of Australasia's richest literary prize says the money is incredibly important to her. Aboriginal author Melissa Lukashenko has taken out the ARA Historical Novel Prize. The writer says the proceeds will help house her family member facing homelessness. 

Program: Calls for a faster a pharmaceutical scheme

An elaborate operation is underway as Sydney residents collect seagrass that is washed ashore to be stored by scientists in challenging conditions and replanted back under the sea.

The winners of this year's Australian Children's Books of the Year awards have been announced.  And the authors are passionate about literature for young people in this digital age.

Not many speed daters expect to take a whiff of potential lovers as an introduction, but in the name of science that's what happened at a Sydney speed-dating event as part of National Science Week.

A world-first Australian study finds personalised cancer treatments using genome sequencing are achieving remission in cases considered unlikely to be cured.

A world-first Australian study into personalised cancer treatment for children with aggressive forms of the disease has made ground-breaking findings. More than half of the children that had drugs matched to their specific cancers after genome sequencing achieved complete or partial remission.

Riot police were deployed outside a Western Sydney council meeting overnight, due to debate over the banning a book about same-sex parents.

Australia has set a goal of hitting net zero carbon emissions by 20-50... and the Federal Government says gas will be a crucial energy source in getting there.