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

Australia’s energy market is feeling the chill, but coal and gas have kept the lights on.

A new CSIRO facility has been created to bring flexible solar tech to market.

Federal ministers will visit industrial heartlands to see how to retain regional jobs.

Federal backing could bring next-gen battery technology closer.

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.

Adani has accused researchers of trying to derail Australia’s coal export industry.

A new invention generates useful static electricity from waste polystyrene.

Australia could soon power Singapore with solar energy via a massive undersea cable.

The Australian Energy Regulator (AER) has launched a consultation on updates to ring-fencing guidelines.

Labor has accused Peter Dutton of seeking to impose nuclear energy on Queensland.

The world is running out of excuses - and time - to curb catastrophic climate change.

Brazil has secured a $45 billion deal to address the 2015 Mariana dam disaster.

Big money is showing mixed opinions on nuclear power.

A storm-induced power failure in Broken Hill has exposed serious energy vulnerabilities.

Australia’s billion-dollar quantum computing gamble could reshape its economic landscape.

Wholesale energy prices experienced sharp ups and downs this past quarter.

Australia’s hydrogen ambitions have received a $100 million boost in NSW.

The largest wind farm in the Southern Hemisphere, located in Victoria, has started supplying electricity to the state’s power grid.

Energy upgrades are cutting power bills for over 1,000 NSW social housing tenants.

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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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