Pentagon buyer: We’re happy with our launch industry, but payloads are lagging
DALLAS—The Space Force officer tasked with overseeing more than $24 billion in research and development spending…
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An illegal bioweapons lab was found in a Las Vegas garage. It’s a warning for Australia
In Las Vegas last week, two people were admitted to hospital “deathly ill” after being exposed…
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What our teeth reveal about the growing gap between rich and poor
Increasingly, people in poverty have challenged the presumption of academics and community sector advocates to mediate…
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LIVE: President Trump speaks from Oval Office as government shutdown deadline looms
LIVE: President Donald J. Trump delivers an address to the nation from the Oval Office to…
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The US billionaires funding Europe’s far-right | Pinch Point
What do Charlie Kirk, Steve Bannon and Tommy Robinson have in common?They were funded by the…
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US officially out of WHO, leaving hundreds of millions of dollars unpaid
“The United States will not be making any payments to the WHO before our withdrawal on…
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Native pollinators need more support than honeybees in Australia – here’s why
Late last year, the New South Wales government announced an additional A$9.5 million in funding to…
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The Jump in ICE Funding Behind The Minneapolis Surge | Big Take
This week, following the deadly shooting of Renée Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, the…
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As authors abandon Adelaide Writers’ Week after cancelling of Randa Abdel-Fattah, is free speech in tatters?
In a statement, Abdel-Fattah accused the festival board of “blatant and shameless” anti-Palestinian racism and censorship….
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The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing
When writer Cory Doctorow introduced the term enshittification in 2023, he captured a pattern many users…
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How Europe’s new carbon tax on imported goods will change global trade
In many countries, CBAM is also accelerating interest in renewable energy and greener industrial processes. Some…
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Trump’s New Defence Budget LIVE: Trump Signs $1 Trillion Defence Bill; Why it Matters | Palki Sharma
US President Donald Trump has signed the National Defence Authorisation Act, the annual law that sets…
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A virtual reality tool I developed is helping Indigenous people connect with Country
“It makes me feel like I am right there on Country”. This was the response of…
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Oh look, yet another Starship clone has popped up in China
Every other week, it seems, a new Chinese launch company pops up with a rocket design…
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Should Australia establish an independent body to investigate scientific misconduct? We asked 5 experts
Most of us trust scientists. We believe they are not just competent, but honest as well….
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New report confirms famine in Sudan’s el-Fasher and Kadugli | DW News
A new report has confirmed that there’s famine in Sudan’s el-Fasher and Kadugli. The country is…
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This year’s climate talks saw real progress – just not on fossil fuels
COP30 was the first climate summit without a US government delegation. At first, the absence came…
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COP30 wraps with diluted agreement after oil-rich nations weaken wording
The annual United Nations climate conference has ended with an agreement that urges action to address…
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What does the US Congress want with Australia’s eSafety commissioner?
Jordan, the committee’s chair, is a member of the House Freedom Caucus: a formal group of…
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“We’re in an LLM bubble,” Hugging Face CEO says—but not an AI one
Instead, he imagines the eventual outcome to be “a multiplicity of models that are more customized,…
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Finally, Indigenous peoples have an influential voice at COP30. They’re speaking loud and clear.
Since 2019, the UN’s Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform has expanded the Indigenous role in…
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With deadline looming, 4 of 9 universities reject Trump’s “compact” to remake higher ed
Earlier this month, the Trump administration made nine elite universities an offer they couldn’t refuse: bring…
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Billions in private cash is flooding into fusion power. Will it pay off?
Over the past five years, private-sector funding for fusion energy has exploded. The total invested is…
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And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct
For many years the Christmas Island shrew prospered. When European naturalists first visited Christmas Island in…
