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Being blue is risky for superb fairy-wrens: males become more cautious when their plumage turns blue, and other wrens take advantage by using them as colourful decoys.
Like regulators elsewhere, Chinese authorities are unlikely to keep up with new forms of online media.
You would not recognise Earth if you saw it 500 million years ago - the lands, oceans, climate and life were all very different. Scientists now have a new map of the deep history of Earth.
The daunting complexity of biological data requires tailored visualisation tools to reveal buried insights.
Journal Impact Factors are unreliable and may be gamed. But can they still offer value?
We must have open conversations with kids so they’re able to identify reliable news online.
One of Australia’s most distinguished palaeontologists will be farewelled at a funeral in Canberra today.
Australians have a history of putting pragmatism over principle.
Photos are full of information, from your location to phone model, and digital forensics can help extract it.
It’s not safe out there for an app.
Surgeons say minor unintentional damage can happen during surgery, and much of that goes unreported. They say they would be prepared to use robotic tools if they could be shown to help.
The National Broadband Network was meant to provide greater equity of digital access. So far, it’s not looking good.
The number of specialist science journalists in Australia has dropped from around 35 to less than five over the period 2005-2017.
Converting a DNA sequence into an audio could help us learn something useful about it, like where mutations occur.
Science is supremely beautiful, but can also be brutal and unforgiving if you stray from the well-worn pathways.
There’s a reason why some people get different answers to those frustrating viral maths problems. You need to learn how to “read” the maths.
3D printing looms as a gamechanger for the surfing industry as surfboard and fin technology become increasingly high-tech.
We could learn a lot from any mission to send people to Mars, such as whether there’s life elsewhere in the universe or even the technology for new household appliances.
James Bond and Jason Bourne have little to tell us about modern spycraft.
The €1.22 billion XFEL will generate ultrashort X-ray flashes to capture molecules in motion to answer medical and scientific questions. But will the investment be worth it?
The Australian government wants to access encrypted messages, but don’t call it a “backdoor”.
Large birds once lived across Australia, only to become extinct around the time that giant marsupials and other megafauna died out during the Pleistocene “ice ages”.
Australia’s herbaria are a priceless repository, holding around 8 million samples that map historical and current distributions of native and introduced plant species in Australia.
Robust scientific experiments are objective and separated from human influence. But the way we think about and connect with science can present beautiful stories.