Ellen Phiddian is a science and technology reporter for ABC Science. She previously worked as a science journalist at Cosmos Magazine, and in science outreach.
A survey of Australian women with a condition called hyperemesis gravidarum found more than half considered terminating their pregnancy, and 90 per cent considered having no more children.
Australian marine scientists have an unprecedented disaster happening right before them, the toxic algal bloom in South Australian waters.
Scientific efforts are getting microscopic on the biggest algal bloom in Australia’s history to see if it hides secrets that could stop its spread.
A worldwide study of more than 4 million birdcalls has found that birds are singing for nearly an hour longer each day because of light pollution.
A supernova blast 2.2 billion light-years from Earth has given astronomers a deeper view into a star's centre than ever before.
Archaeologists discovered stone tools at least a million years old on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, but exactly who made them and how they got there is unknown.
A single flash of lightning stretching more than 800 kilometres across the US has set a new "megaflash" world record. Could it happen in Australia?
A strange crest found on ancient reptile fossils suggests birds and dinosaurs may not have the exclusive lock on feather-like features.
Researchers tested a genetically engineered gut bacterium to try to limit kidney stones. But once inside some human volunteers, the modified microbe did not follow the plan.
Current models of physics dictate there should be as much antimatter in the universe as matter, but there isn't. Work at the world's largest particle collider has come a step closer to explaining why.
Koalas spend 20 hours a day sleeping, and most of the rest eating. But a new study focuses on a tiny fraction of the day when they're at their most vulnerable.
Researchers have sequenced the genome of an ancient Egyptian who was buried in a pot nearly 5,000 years ago, about the time some of the oldest, and most famous, pyramids were built.
They developed electric vans and scooters in the 1940s, invented a portable heart monitor and saved thousands of people suffering from polio, so why aren't the Both brothers household names in Australia?
The first videos released by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory reveal thousands of drifting asteroids, hundreds of thousands of stars and millions of distant galaxies.
A stunning nebula and a sky dotted full of stars and dancing galaxies are in a set of three images released by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory as a taster of more to come.
Astronomers have been waiting for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory to open for 30 years. So what is it, and how will it change astronomy?
AI-powered companion apps allow users to build characters with which they can text or even hold voice and video calls, but some researchers are concerned how they affect human-to-human relationships.
A new study has used AI to decipher the age of the Dead Sea Scrolls, potentially rewriting what we know about when some of the world's most precious biblical texts were created.
A new study challenges predictions our home galaxy the Milky Way will crash into the Andromeda galaxy in 5 billion years.
A weird object in the sky that blasted pulses of X-rays and radio waves for two minutes out of every 44 could be a dead star, but it's not one that fits with astronomical theories.
Scientists have unveiled contact lenses that allow people to see in the dark by converting normally invisible infrared light into light they can see.
Humpback whales are now migrating north to their warmer breeding waters — but some of them will give birth as far south as Tasmania, according to new research based on observations from citizen scientists.
A green glow snapped from Mars marks the first time that an aurora has been observed from the surface of another planet.
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