The inaugural Australian Falling Walls Lab competition has been won by Dr Kim van Netten, an engineering researcher from the University of Newcastle. [ + ]

Olympus Australia has been proclaimed an ABA100 Winner of the 2016 Australian Business Award for Business Innovation. [ + ]

When do you think global warming first began to take effect? If you answered any later than the Industrial Revolution, you're in for a shock. [ + ]

If you're a criminal with a propensity towards guns, now might be the time to go straight, as forensic scientists have reported matching gunshot residue with specific brands of ammunition for the first time. [ + ]

An international research collaboration has discovered the enzyme that contributes to chronic inflammation in the blood of patients with suicidal tendencies. [ + ]

Australian biotech company Medlab has signed a significant cannabis supply agreement with Aphria, a Canadian-licensed producer of medical marijuana. [ + ]

Deakin University researchers have discovered that the zebra finch, a small Australian desert bird, calls to its embryos during incubation to warn them about the heat they will face upon hatching. [ + ]

ANU researchers are engineering a bacterial enzyme that could help detect many performance-enhancing drugs over longer time frames compared with current anti-doping tests. [ + ]

Scientists have shown for the first time the important and different role played by the proteins MLKL and RIPK3 as regulators of the necroptotic process in a preclinical model of autoimmune disease. [ + ]

Scientists have used a novel ceramic membrane to make the direct, non-oxidative conversion of gas to liquids possible for the first time — reducing cost, eliminating multiple process steps and avoiding any carbon dioxide emissions. [ + ]

Scitech has been appointed the authorised distributor for Omicron-Laserage — a company that develops, builds and produces an innovative range of lasers, laser light engines and LED sources and light engines. [ + ]

Australian scientists have developed a material based on graphene that has the heat resistance of some metals but is much lighter. [ + ]

Using the Geoscience Atom Probe Facility at Curtin University, scientists have found metallic gold nanoparticles only a few nanometres in diameter within the common mineral arsenopyrite. [ + ]

The Pacific Northwest Research Institute has announced a strategic collaboration with Indivumed, a German oncology research company, designed to harness the power of molecular and clinical cancer data for tailoring successful treatments for individual cancer patients. [ + ]

Scientists have suggested that the reasons people and animals develop cancer in some organs but not in others may have more to do with evolution than any lifestyle or genetic factors. [ + ]