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Barely a week goes by without headlines about a giant asteroid coming past Earth. Here’s what really makes an asteroid pass notable – it’s not just size.
The sharing of intimate images has been on the rise among young people. But research shows navigating consent in these situations can come with a lot of grey areas.
The Voyager 2 spacecraft is 20 billion kilometres away and has lost track of Earth. A radio dish near Canberra is the only channel for re-establishing communication.
What happens when wild native bush rats meet cockroaches they’ve never seen before?
Brain samples of a thylacine that died in 1880 in Berlin were kept safe by researchers for decades. Now, they have finally been analysed.
Statistics show how a change of approach by England’s team marks a dramatic break with the history of Test cricket.
Room-temperature superconductors could transform technology – but the latest, much-hyped claims should be approached with caution.
Fatal stabbings are the leading cause of homicide in countries with restricted access to firearms, including Australia. New research could help solve these cases.
Researchers simulated thousands of scenarios of an ancient pathogen being released into modern ecosystems. In the worst cases, up to one-third of host species were destroyed.
Children under 5 years old may easily mistake a dog showing teeth for one that’s giving them a “friendly smile”.
Scammers have exploited a simple weakness in the myGov online portal to redirect hundreds of millions of dollars in tax refunds.
In the largest study of its kind, researchers have used DNA from a 6,700-year-old cemetery in France to reconstruct the lives of everyday Neolithic people.
Machu Picchu is now an iconic tourist destination in Peru – but it was once a royal palace that pulled people from all corners of the Inca empire.
Experiments show honey from Australian desert ants has potent antimicrobial power.
Twitter has been officially rebranded to X, in a process many would deem chaotic. But we can still try to make sense of it.
How dangerous is borax? And what’s the best way to judge the toxicity of everyday household products?
Animal-assisted yoga classes have increased in popularity around the world – but their impact on animal welfare may be far from benign.
The surprising frequency of bees on coins through history shows the enduring importance to human societies of our buzzing companions.
It might seem like a simple concept, but to get ice cream right, you need three states of matter and a delicate interplay of chemistry.
The discovery is helping shed light on a vibrant ancient spice trade that spanned many thousands of kilometres.
A nuclear bomb is a bomb that makes explosions by changing the nucleus of an atom in a way that releases a lot of energy.
Astronomers have detected a long-running source of slow, repeating radio pulses that can’t be explained by current theories – but it’s probably not aliens.
Ancient DNA from Ukraine uncovers the earliest evidence of the arrival of the ‘steppe ancestry’ – the last piece of the modern Western European genetic puzzle.
In a preprint study, researchers estimate training the model behind ChatGPT would have required somewhere between 210,000 and 700,000 litres of water.