The Conversation

Australia’s Chief Scientist Ian Chubb says secondary school children should be taught to distinguish between belief and evidence when it comes to climate change.

Scientists have identified skin cancer in the Great Barrier Reef’s wild fish populations which is almost identical to melanomas found in humans.

Greenhouse gas cuts pledged by developed countries will not be enough to stop temperatures rising by 2 degrees by 2100, according to Chinese researchers.

Cutting complementary medicine courses from universities would dilute the quality of the education available and threaten safe practice but have no impact on demand for it, say Australian academics.

Recent analyses that China's carbon dioxide emissions might be 1.2 gigatons or 20 percent higher than previously estimated have generated something of a feeding frenzy in the media.

Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Brian Schmidt discusses the significance of the transit of Venus, an event which happens only once or twice in one's lifetime.

Martian meteorites that fell to Earth may contain building blocks of life, says Marion Anderson from Monash University.

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has pledged to dramatically boost foreign language education in Australian schools.

Dr. Yuko Kinoshita of the University of Canberra looks at Asian languages in Australia, and why we should all try harder to learn them.