In 1954 the journal was transferred to ANZAAS – the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, and published as Search.
Throughout this time the journal published the research of eminent Australian scientists, including Sir Douglas Mawson and Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, whose groundbreaking clonal selection theory was published in the journal in 1957.
The journal evolved considerably over the following decades, with ownership transferring from ANZAAS to Blackwell Science in the 1980s and finally to Control Publications in 1992.
Published by Control Publications and available in newsagents, it was the only magazine dedicated to Australian and New Zealand science.
Australasian Science's Patrons in this time were Nobel Laureate Prof Peter C. Doherty and ABC broadcaster Robyn Williams.