A video captured by the well-known rocket engineer Destin Sandlin shows how jellyfish injects its prey with venom. He used a microscope and high-speed lens to provide the close view of the creature considered as the most poisonous animal in the world.

Researchers at the Australian National University have developed a tractor beam that can float anything to its intended destination. The system creates complex 3D waves that have their own currents, letting to pull a target simply by adjusting the waves' frequencies and sizes.

The Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared carrying 239 passengers and crew five months ago and it's more than two weeks that flight MH17 was shot out of the sky in which 298 people on board were killed.

Extreme weather hit the Coast last week, but the rainfall measured in July was close to average. The Bureau of Meteorology has reported that the climate system for an El Nino 2014 has been encouraged by warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean over the past several months.

On Monday, the Australian vintner Treasury Wine Estates stated that it would consider the $3.2 billion takeover offered by the private equity giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

Among people who died on a Malaysia Airlines flight shot down over eastern Ukraine were six researchers and AIDS experts. They were travelling to attend this year's 20th International AIDS Conference in Australia.

Queensland scientists have shown in a study that dredging poses damaging impacts to places like the Great Barrier Reef.

The study conducted by Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and James Cook University has found the first concrete evidence which links turbidity and sedimentation to elevated levels of coral disease.

The Environmental Protection Agency has received as many as 6,751 submissions and two petitions with a total of 25,000 signatures on Western Australia's proposal to continue Western Australian Shark Hazard Mitigation Drum Line Program.