Science

Changing flags, creating new names, and faking their GPS data, ABC NEWS Verify investigates how Iranian-linked oil tankers continue to export oil during the war.

Queensland researchers are asking farmers to send them live cattle ticks as part of an effort to protect the nation's $17.7 billion cattle industry.

Police are investigating the deaths of kangaroos on suburban streets in Lake Macquarie in what has been described as a "deliberate" hit-and-run attack.

The long-awaited fuselage and wings of John Travolta's Boeing 707, which he is donating to a regional NSW aircraft museum, have been loaded onto a ship in the US, bound for Australia.

At Helen Murray's home in Silverton in far west New South Wales, where temperatures often push past 30 degrees Celsius in summer, figuring out what will grow is often a jigsaw puzzle of trial and error.

A CSIRO report has found Tasmania's salmon farming industry has experienced a "significant and sustained shift" away from strong community support it experienced a decade ago.

A preliminary report has revealed new details about how an Australian research vessel hit the ocean floor after navigational echo sounders were turned off to stop interference with scientific sampling.

Australia's leading biosecurity experts have been unable to trace the source of the of the bee-killing varroa mite incursion which has changed the face of beekeeping and pollination in Australia.

SA Premier Peter Malinauskas has doubled down on public health messaging about the state's algal bloom crisis saying the word "toxic" could also be used for alcohol. It follows questions raised by the ABC's Four Corner's program about the time frame in delivering health advice on the bloom. 

The unexpected findings in the savanna country of north Queensland have changed scientists' understanding of rock monitors, but there are concerns the new species could be vulnerable to the pet trade.