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The patient has Stargardt disease, an inherited cause of central vision loss with no approved restorative treatment. The Sydney clinical trial is continuing.

The company has secured $750,000 for a pilot plant, but its claimed emissions savings have not been independently verified at commercial scale.

Scientists formally named Leopardus tilcayo in Current Biology on 17 September 2026, the first novel living wild cat species described in more than a century.

The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water ordered all 24 personnel withdrawn from the Macquarie Island research station on 28 August 2026, citing the psychosocial risk of a potential H5 avian influenza outbreak.

The numbers are hard to hold in the mind. S301 is a newly discovered star orbiting Sagittarius A* at roughly 25,000 kilometres per second, making it the fastest known star in the Milky Way, moving at about 8 per cent of the speed of light, fast enough to cross Australia's entire east coast in a

Drug discovery has a long-standing and expensive flaw. Only about one in 10,000 compounds entering preclinical pipelines ever reaches the clinic, a failure rate that has resisted every wave of laboratory automation for decades.

Read the stranding records for the Gulf of Carpentaria and one thing stands out: pygmy blue whales do not belong there. The Gulf is shallow, warm and enclosed, sitting well inside waters the subspecies is almost never documented to enter.

Alfie and Bailey were born in September 2024 and look, by all appearances, like any other floppy-eared beagle pups. What they are missing at the molecular level is the reason a New York biotech has spent years on them.