Science

At least 90 species of frogs have been made extinct by chytrid fungus worldwide. But a program to protect other frogs with  "saunas" made of bricks is proving promising.

Judo is more popular in France than anywhere else in the world, but while participation numbers in Australia are tiny in comparison, Katharina Haecker and Aoife Coughlan enter the Paris Olympics as medal contenders. 

Craig Eddie's love affair with snails started on a Queensland beach when he was five years old. Since then he's turned his passion for the molluscs into a career in ecology. 

The temperature above the east Antarctic coastline warmed by about 50 degrees Celsius in a week earlier in July. The event, called a Sudden Stratospheric Warming has the potential to impact Australia's weather through August and possibly well into spring.

While doomsayers may see virtual performers like Hatsune Miku and Plave as a threat to the creative industries, some artists are using the technology to their advantage.

There is a growing sense of unease about global stock markets, and particularly Wall Street, as investors rush to sell off the tech stocks that have recently pushed markets to record highs.

South Australian Police deliver a stern warning after more than 30,000 drivers in a month were caught using their mobile phones behind the wheel.

A rat which became extinct on mainland Australia by the 1930s is staying safe from predators on an island off SA by living in one of Australia's worst invasive weeds.

Serial rapist Peter Bratic pleaded guilty in February to sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman in Newcastle in 1995. Advancements in forensics matched the case to his DNA years later.

Researchers and wildlife authorities say disposal of mammoth bodies is a complicated process after a humpback was carefully loaded onto a truck and buried at the Geraldton tip.