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The planets closer to the Sun are indeed hotter than the Earth is. But they are still not hot enough to melt the rocks they are made from.
Reports of North Korea’s capability of firing nuclear weapons are not the only serious threat to global security. North Korea has also become an aggressive cyber power.
The cost and confusion of having content tied to so many different streaming platforms could ultimately provoke a return to bundling and a pay TV model.
Personality traits reflecting how well we treat others can be separated into politeness and compassion, which are each linked to different kinds of prosocial behaviours.
Social media is complicating Australia’s implied constitutional right to political speech. Bernard Gaynor’s case could offer more clarity.
Australia was a different place 275 million years ago - wild storms surged through icy seas, and marine animals lived a tenuous existence. But brittle stars had a survival strategy.
Even our most anonymous objects, like the portable electric drill, are sources of cultural expression. It’s time to learn their history.
Jamaican Usain Bolt is often hailed as the greatest athlete of all time. But when you crunch the numbers, his name doesn’t come top of the list.
Science provides a useful way to explore and understand the natural world. But it also has a richness, diversity and creativity that is often overlooked.
The evidence of a much earlier presence of humans in Indonesia was found more than 100 years ago. But only now has the age of the fossil teeth been accurately dated.
Sending personal emails, a bit of online shopping, checking out your friend’s holiday snaps on Facebook: that’s workplace cyberloafing.
The way humans make an ‘ssss’ noise is different to the way a snake does it. We put our tongue behind our teeth when we hiss, but for a snake the tongue isn’t involved at all in making sounds.
We still can’t see the dark matter thought to make up about a quarter of the universe, but at least now we have a map of its structure.
The banks are dealing with rising rates of online credit card fraud, but they can’t fix it on their own.
The footprints of dinosaurs can tell a lot about how they moved about many millions of years ago.
Once online, our healthcare data could be used for research long after we’re gone.
Locals laws and norms are breaking up the internet as we know it.
It’s not what you think you know, but how you can justify your knowledge that is most important.
A world first study shows CRISPR can remove a target gene from early stage human embryos. But with the advance in science come weighty ethical dilemmas.
Streaming video is exploding in China, but regulators are trying to keep control.
The closest relative of Kangaroo Island’s trapdoor spider lives in South Africa - and the arachnid could have arrived in Australia by oceanic migration.
The 2017 Australian Digital Inclusion Index shows that internet access and digital ability have improved since 2014, but the affordability of online services has declined.
In five or seven billion years time, the Sun’s life will come to an end. And it will be really spectacular - if you’re watching from far enough away.
Whether booking in a colonoscopy or choosing where to buy coffee, your memory and ability to visualise future scenarios shape life’s most important decisions.