Yellow crazy ants are one of the world's worst invasive species. And it turns out they have unique systems of reproduction that make life in the queendom more complicated than we realised.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced next month's budget will include a further $539.2 million government investment in new clean hydrogen and carbon capture, use and storage projects.
The recession was pinked-tinged, but so has been the recovery.
The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody made recommendations to ensure ethical reporting of these deaths. Despite this, harmful and inaccurate reporting still abounds.
Side effects generally indicate a natural immune response and will resolve in a few days.
During 2020, we saw the traditional classroom all but disappear. We can expect education to face other types of disruption. In an uncertain future, teachers need more than classroom-readiness.
A gender-justice researcher reviewed the entire newly released government sexuality education resource for teachers. She found several significant problems.
Losing archives has significant implications in a country like South Africa with a fraught and contested history because voices from the past, which may carry alternative histories, are lost.
Everyone seems united against the new proposals, but can they really be stopped?
The amount of risk from overseas arrivals depends not just on Australia's vaccination rates, but also on the particular circumstances of the country from which people are travelling.
During the European Middle Ages, parts of the world experienced warming similar to that between 1960 to 1990. But the rising temperatures we're observing now are global and exceed the past record.
The political power of veterans is being put on show - as the government announces plans for a royal commission into veteran suicide.
Our best long-term strategy is to rely on the mRNA vaccines like Pfizer and Moderna.
Measuring the equivalent economic cost of 'lost life years' due to the pandemic allows us to map the true scale of the crisis.
Australia was promised a world-class vaccine program. But instead of a rollout, we got an eekout.
As GOP-run statehouses across the country tighten voting restrictions, a bill in Congress would, its Democratic sponsors say, undo more than 15 years of moves to make voting harder.
New Zealand's Alpine Fault has ruptured in a major earthquake on average every 250 years. New research shows a 75% chance of the next one within 50 years, and it's likely to be magnitude 8 or more.
In this instalment of our fantasy art travel series, Jen Webb yearns to revisit London, a special aunt and a very big arachnid.
The most stressed are Australians on JobSeeker and single parents.
In this live event, leading thinkers and contributors to The Conversation examine how curious kids can make change in the 21st century.
