Progress is being made on Queensland’s colossal new wind farm.

The UN is revisiting nuclear war risks, thirty-five years and many threats after its most recent review.

Queensland’s new LNP government has dumped a major hydro project, report findings notwithstanding.

South Korea and Japan are leading the race to build Australia's next frigate fleet.

A major builder is investing $1.2 million in safety after two severe incidents.

Scientists in the US have linked 22 pesticides to prostate cancer, raising fresh concerns for farmers.

FIFO workers’ partners face emotional and physical stress when their loved ones leave.

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.

Federal backing could bring next-gen battery technology closer.

Governments are greenlighting rocket projects despite environmental outcry and defence cuts.

Mars Wodonga says it will soon be Australia’s first fully renewable manufacturing facility.

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.

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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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