Robyn Williams: Last week the historian Ann Moyal spoke at the Royal Society. I mean the Royal Society of New South Wales, one of Australia's very oldest scientific organisations, established in 1821.

It might be somewhat premature for Premier Peter Beattie to start thinking about annexing South Australia, but a new study has revealed it was once part of Queensland. At least until a major ...

FOLLOWING the example of Mr. Chapman's Australian fossils—an outline of palaeonto logy based on Australian examples for Australian students—Mr. Howchin, of the University of Adelaide, has prepared a ...

Professor Kenton “Ken” Campbell was an internationally respected authority on Australian geology and palaeontology for more than 50 years. Sadly he passed away last weekend, aged 89 years, and will be ...

Seismological and geological studies led by University of Melbourne researchers show the 2016 magnitude 6.0 Petermann earthquake produced a landscape-shifting 21 km surface rupture. The dimensions and ...

Australia’s geological agency has published in-depth minerals mapping data that it hopes will drive fresh investment in mining and agriculture across the country’s southeast, the agency and resources ...

The doors have swung open on a giant Canberra vault containing Australia's geological Holy Grail – about 33 thousand boxes of seismic secrets, as well as a lot of valuable rock samples. Federal ...

Also known as Columbia, Nuna was a supercontinent that geologists believe existed from approximately 2.5 to 1.5 billion years ago. Now, there's new evidence as to how its various pieces once fit ...

GEOLOGICAL surveys have been proceeding, to a greater or lesser extent, in all, the Australian colonies for several years, and in Victoria the work has been prosecuted so systematically, and with such ...

We think of Australia as a solid landmass. But it’s actually more like a jigsaw puzzle that has been put together over many millions of years. The problem with working out how Australia formed is that ...