We attached tiny transmitters to a number of individual moths and tracked a part of their migration using a Cessna aircraft.
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The largest animals to ever walk the earth, giant sauropods dominated world ecosystems for 100 million years. New research indicates soft ‘heel pads’ helped them reach their stature.
Giant meteorite impacts may have created the land we live on
Is it harder to choose between four flavours of jam, or two different electricity plans?
Radio telescopes produce enormous amounts of data, and we need immense computing power to produce even a single image like this one.
In the development of ever smarter homes, Amazon could soon have access to the maps of our houses created and stored by Roomba vacuums.
Google’s brief disappearance from the internet felt, for many, like an almost-apocalyptic moment
Plants lose huge amounts of water to catch the carbon dioxide they need for photosynthesis – but a new discovery may make them more efficient.
Volcanoes themselves can also impact the climate, due to a “cooling effect” that comes after eruptions.
In a huge milestone, researchers have grown a mouse embryo entirely from stem cells. Could humans be next?
The length of a day has critical impacts on our technologies, navigation, and more.
A species that is an “apex” predator in one environment won’t necessarily remain so in another.
What is ‘structured water’ (aka hexagonal water, EZ water, or H3O2)? You might see people advertising it, but it’s not a real thing.
A new map of more than 14,000 ant species around the world will guide efforts for discovery and conservation.
As far as we know, only one person has ever been directly struck by space debris. That was back in 1997.
The first thing Australian medical research needs is more money. The second thing is making funding allocation less of a lottery.
Caves form over millions of years, as a result of flowing water slowly working away at ‘soft’ calcareous rock.
The green glow of an aurora is caused by oxygen ions in the upper atmosphere. Some meteors can glow in this way, too, but only if they are extremely fast.
James Webb has spotted extremely distant galaxies formed soon after the Big Bang, but are they old or young? Or is this the wrong question to ask?
One of the objects is a ‘fossil’ radio source – a leftover from the death of a supermassive black hole that once shot out huge jets of plasma.
Geology experts explain why coloured diamonds are so much rarer than clear ones – and why the newly discovered Lulo Rose might become the most expensive diamond in history.
We’ve come a long time since women were deemed too “hormonal” to be sent into space. Yet gender bias is an issue women in the field still reckon with every day.
While artificially illuminating the night allows humans to make use of the the night, in doing so we catastrophically change the environment for all other species. How can we fix this?
Earth is moving through a bit of space where three streams of debris intersect with our orbit. These streams will give birth to the stars of this weekend’s show.
One Medical provides primary healthcare services to people across the US.