The University of Wollongong has announced its plans for an $80 million Centre of Molecular and Life Sciences — its biggest ever self-funded research infrastructure investment. [ + ]

Australian and German scientists have used the world's largest steerable radio telescopes to create the most detailed map yet of the Milky Way. [ + ]

The 2016 Prime Minister's Prizes for Science were awarded at a dinner attended by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and the Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science, Greg Hunt, in the Great Hall of Parliament House. [ + ]

Researchers pioneering a new method of zooming in on leukaemia cells in action have found that the notoriously treatment-resistant blood cancer cells are not playing 'hide and seek', as was traditionally believed, but are actually playing a game of 'tag'. [ + ]

UK researchers have made the first ever direct observation of the elusive dewetting process, which takes place when a liquid film retracts to form a bead-shaped drop. [ + ]

A new study has analysed data for 2.4 million births in Sweden between 1973 and 1996 and determined that perinatal complications contribute to the risk of developing obsessive compulsive disorder later in life. [ + ]

Melbourne researchers have developed a nanoscale engineering method that transforms tiny particles into Lego-like modular building blocks. [ + ]

A scientist from the University of Newcastle has developed what is claimed to be the most potent dietary antioxidant available anywhere in the world. [ + ]

Paleo practitioners, Atkins advocates and the anti-gluten brigade have got it all wrong, according to the latest research from the University of Sydney's Charles Perkins Centre. [ + ]

University of Sydney researchers have announced world-record results in rocket efficiency following the invention of new thruster technology. [ + ]

Researchers have discovered that a large portion of our immune cells need to go to school to learn how to fight off infections. [ + ]

Physicists from The Australian National University have halted light, bringing the prospect of optical quantum computing one step closer to reality. [ + ]

US researchers have been working on a molecular manufacturing method that can produce a broad range of biomolecules anywhere in the world, without power or refrigeration. [ + ]

The US FDA has announced the approval of a Western Australian-developed drug to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) — a rare and fatal muscle wasting disease affecting one in 3500 boys worldwide. [ + ]

It may seem counterintuitive, but exposing infants to allergenic foods from an early age may reduce the likelihood of them developing full-blown allergies and autoimmune disease later in life. [ + ]