Take a close look at the potential of genetically modified food and the impact they may have on our health and environment.

From high school to PhD, plant molecular biologist Joanna Sundstrom tells her story about a successful, and interesting, career in science.

The Prime Minister’s Science Engineering and Innovation Council has released two new expert reports on serious issues facing the nation.

If they all carried passports or had fingerprints, checking the identity of potentially harmful pests would be easy. Because they don’t, scientists have set up a series of microscopic checkpoints that cast a digital net over our valuable crops.

Scientists are using otoliths, the ear bones from fish, to monitor their efforts to restore the distressed Australian Bass population in the Snowy River.

Every time we flush the toilet, we are literally sending one of Earth’s most vital chemical elements down the drain.

The big issues in the agricultural sector can only be addressed by multi-disciplined research teams working with industry to better understand the critical connections between productivity and sustainability.

With the population exceeding 6.7 billion and growing by over 6 million a month, the need to protect agricultural land and to increase food production has become critical. Does sustainable agriculture have the answers?