Security cameras captured two separate fireballs over Australia this week. So what's responsible these bright flashes?
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Science is full of surprises. While searching for planets orbiting nearby stars, researchers stumbled across the remains of a star that once outshone the Sun.
Better public awareness about Australian jellyfish is vital, especially as many Aussies head to the beach for likely the last time this Easter.
Saat ini kita telah menemukan lebih banyak objek dekat Bumi, tapi tantangannya adalah mengidentifikasi benda yang berpotensi menabrak kita.
We're finding more near-Earth objects all the time, and the challenge is to identify those that could potentially hit us. So how come we missed one that caused a huge blast in December?
Your identity changes when you move house and, if that's to a different community, your clothes change along with you.
There is little reason to think changes made to the Closing the Gap targets and partnerships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander representatives will have much of an impact.
Think moving won't change you? You might want to rethink that. To feel 'at home' you need to accept the new place where you live as part of your changing identity.
Your tongue, saliva and nose work together to help you taste your food.
Life could exist in another solar system in a different part our galaxy. Or in another galaxy far away. We don't have the perfect technology yet to study such far away places but we're still trying.
Moonlight will spoil some of the big meteor showers this year, but still plenty of others to see. So here's your guide on when and where to look to catch nature's fireworks.
The comet 46P/Wirtanen is just 1.2km in size but it should be visible in the night sky this Saturday as it makes a close approach to Earth this year. And don't forget the Geminids meteor shower.
Of 19 World Heritage sites across the country, only two, Kakadu and Uluru-Kata Tjuta, recognise the values of "living" Aboriginal culture. None of Australia's three sites inscribed purely for cultural values recognises Aboriginal people.
Long ago in the distant past, our entire Universe was microscopic – just like an atom – and obeyed completely different rules of cause and effect.
Even the Voyager spacecraft are controlled remotely, 20 billion kilometres away. It takes 20 hours for instructions to travel from Earth to the spacecraft but we can do it -- using a remote.
The new planet is believed to be orbiting Barnard's Star, a red dwarf that's not visible to the naked eye but one of the closest stars to our Solar System.
There are probably more than a million planets in the universe for every single grain of sand on Earth. That's a lot of planets. My guess is that there probably is life elsewhere in the Universe.
There are lots of places where it's much, much hotter than the Sun. And the amazing thing is that this heat also makes new atoms - tiny particles that have made their way long ago from stars to us.
We read about and watch other people moving to the coast or country and, in doing so, sometimes we're persuaded to join the seachangers and treechangers ourselves.
Research has started to identify the key factors in creating communities that promote good early childhood development.
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Senior Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland
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Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland
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Professor and Principal Scientist, University of Southern Queensland
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Professor (Physics), University of Southern Queensland
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Professor in Archaeology, University of Southern Queensland
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Associate Professor, School of Arts and Communication, University of Southern Queensland
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Senior Research Fellow (Regional Community Development), Strategic Research Projects, University of Southern Queensland
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PhD Candidate, University of Southern Queensland
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Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland
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Lynda Crowley-Cyr is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professsor of Law, University of Southern Queensland
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Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland
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Senior Lecturer (Food Science), University of Southern Queensland
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Professor of Psychology, University of Southern Queensland
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Lecturer and Research Fellow, University of Southern Queensland
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Lecturer of Wine Science, University of Southern Queensland
