Ancient whales were neither gentle, nor giants: they were smaller than those of today and judging from their teeth, a lot meaner.
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It’s a crystal - but not as you’ve seen it before. A new crystal can be bent and flexed, and is expected to deliver new responsive materials for emerging technologies.
Georgina, age 5, wants to know why rainbows are round.
Technologists need to understand the society in which they live, and the effect their inventions could have on it.
We are witnessing dramatic advances in the deployment of autonomous systems, but are we designing robots that can be trusted?
Genetic evidence has become a critical aspect of modern criminal investigations. What are the methods and approaches used in present-day DNA forensics?
Processed foods often contain additives with intimidating chemical names or numbers. But many of these are derived from or based on chemicals that are found in nature.
Doxing challenges traditional journalism. Its investigative role is circumvented by people disclosing information online quickly, and often inaccurately.
A 3,700-year old Babylonian clay tablet reveals an ancient method of constructing right-angled triangles that makes it the world’s oldest and most accurate trigonometric table.
It’s more than 25 years since Arnold Schwarzenegger returned in the Terminator 2: Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Now he’s back in glorious 3D, so how does the story and the science stack up today?
Boron is the hidden ingredient in a lot of our technology. Get to know this plucky little element.
He’s back! Any mention of the killer robots debate brings images of the Terminator film. But science fiction can be a useful tool to get people interested in the real issues in science.
Quantum computing is being described as “just around the corner”. Is it?
Australia’s Chief Scientist Alan Finkel says while it’s possible to build robots to take over jobs – including his own – humanity still has the edge over machines.
Most Australians value science. But we do have some hesitations about the pace of scientific advances, and we’re not sure if scientists are prestigious or not.
Modern cars are computers on wheels. We should make sure they’re cyber-secure.
The way people move can give us a heads up on their mood or intention: it’s called biological motion. Technology called ‘point light displays’ is helping narrow down what unique movements imply.
Why are there 60 minutes in an hour, and not 10? Why do we count up to 10, anyway? Quentin, age five, wants to know.
Australians will be asked to complete a voluntary, non-binding postal vote on marriage reform. Wouldn’t it be easier - and cheaper - to do a sample survey instead?
A stable environment that teaches men to be men and women to be women could be helping to enforce gender across generations.
The Voyager space probes sent back some amazing images of the planets in the outer Solar System, and they’re still talking to Earth every day via Australia’s tracking station.
Blood-detection dogs work paw in hand with scientists and Australia’s police to solve crimes and missing persons cases.
Robots have a lot to learn from humans when it comes to memory.
Your ideas are not immune to criticism just because you express them with sincerity: people are worthy of respect, ideas are not.
When artists and scientists get together, they fuel each other’s creativity and inquiry.