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The hunt for the origin of garnet crystals found on South Australian beaches took researchers thousands of kilometres and half a billion years back in time to a hidden Antarctic mountain range.
Knowing a little bit of chemistry can help a lot when your mouth is on fire.
At the heart of the Maya civilisation were sacred sites where ritual sacrifices took place. A new DNA analysis reveals more about this practice and Maya genetic legacy.
In 2021 a former avocado farmer discovered the most complete pterosaur skeleton ever found in Australia – and new research shows it represents a previously unknown species.
For dolphins, childish play may be useful practice for adult life.
There are various methods for estimating or verifying an online user’s age, none of them foolproof. Importantly, is this the social media future we want?
There are many limitations to what technology can do to bar underage people from porn. Importantly, the very idea distracts from evidence-based solutions.
A new study uses maths and behavioural science to understand how your actions during an epidemic influence the spread of the disease (and vice versa).
Women play a critical role in fieldwork in the Arctic and Antarctica, but the vast majority of them report negative experiences while undertaking this research. Here’s how we can fix the problem.
A slowly flickering source of radio waves that changes over time might be a neutron star or a white dwarf – but its behaviour doesn’t quite fit any of our theories.
Expert opinion is necessary as part of the justice system – but nobody is asking if the experts are fit for the task and if their evidence is reliable.
It feels like a data breach is in the news every single week. Here’s why you should guard your personal information more jealously than ever.
Australia’s Women in STEM ambassador initiative has been discontinued. Is this a setback for diversity?
The very early Earth may not have been as inhospitable as scientists thought, with life perhaps starting more than 4 billion years ago.
A recent find of an ancient giant bird’s skull has revealed much about its life among the vanished lakes and wetlands of inland South Australia.
Can you patent something Indigenous peoples already know about? Too often, the answer is yes - but moves are afoot to stop it.
New research on cuckoos suggests the battle between exploiters and victims may be a key reason for life’s enormous diversity.
Our new research predicts how Hunga Tonga’s vast underwater eruption in 2022 will change winters worldwide for years to come – as far away as Australia, North America and even Scandinavia.
Deepfakes and disinformation are on the rise as the world faces the ‘biggest election year in history’. But AI doesn’t have to spell the end of democracy.
The bigger the brain, the better we are at finding fruit. But is that true? A new study on wild primates refutes this idea.
New research shows how fear of missing out and an inability to regulate our own emotions is linked to using the internet in concerning ways.
Landslides are usually sudden and cause devastation in their wake. Here’s why they are seemingly impossible to predict.
We should be eating plenty of fresh produce every day. But throwing away another bunch of wilted herbs is demotivating. Thankfully, there are helpful tips to make produce last.
Using AI to write search results is risky for Google, the internet, and the whole idea of ‘truth’