The Cassini space probe discovered liquid lakes, poisonous gases and the basic elements of life on Saturn’s moon, Titan.
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Ada, 7, wants to know why things close to the train windows zoom by really fast, while things further away seem to go by much slower.
Earth’s thermostat can fail spectacularly at times. Around 700 million years ago, huge volcanic eruptions triggered “Snowball Earth”.
Can we use smart home data to better identify and report abusers, while protecting victims of domestic and family violence?
The first reliable measure of the 3D shape of galaxies and their rotation helps to shed light on their history.
We have better maps of the moon than Earth’s newest continent, Zealandia. That’s about to change as an international expedition probes the vast undersea plateau of continental crust.
A special combination of rain, rocks and subsea volcanoes makes the sea salty.
A 8.1 magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of Mexico on 8 September 2017. Fortunately, initial fears of a damaging tsunami hitting the coastline now appear unfounded.
Ensuring knowledge creates impact involves disciplinary excellence, communication, co-location and funding.
The more we learn about bio-nano science, the easier it will be to design nanoparticles that behave like we want them to.
Many Australians are unaware of current police and intelligence powers when it comes to accessing our data.
Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration must learn to deal with software rather than simply bits of metal and plastic.
Without proper checks, police could have significantly expanded scope to search homes and computers around the world.
The Cassini space probe took us up close and through the beautiful rings of Saturn. It captured some amazing images, and even the sound of the rings during its mission.
Support from overseas law enforcement and tech companies is typically a slow and cumbersome process.
The Cassini space probe discovered several new moons on its mission to Saturn, and revealed fresh views of the moons we already knew about.
Want to know if a rogue state has performed a nuclear test? Sniffer planes can help.
It’s increasingly difficult to tell virtually-created images from those of real children.
Pacemakers are Internet of Things devices for the human body, but they’re still not particularly secure.
With only days to go before NASA’s Cassini space probe ends its two-decade mission to explore Saturn, what has it revealed about the ringed planet, the second largest in our solar system?
The first set of ethical rules on how self-driving cars should operate have been adopted by the German government.
How exactly do the stars twinkle in the night sky? As it turns out, the answer is full of hot air… and cold air.
Anger, aggression and violence each have a big impact on society. But we must understand the differences between these terms.
There is no good way to make sense of the category “race” from biological or social perspectives.
Computers today are fast and powerful but they still can’t think like a human when it comes to some tasks we find easy. That’s why tech companies are turning to neuroscience for help.