Kids on social media more than two hours a day at higher risk of mental illness
Importantly, the risks of social media use were not evenly experienced across adolescence. As a result,…
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Private space tourism is taking off – but laws on outer space are from another era
Private commercial operators are launching more rockets into space, carrying more people and pursuing more ambitious…
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Tightening NDIS eligibility will disproportionately affect women – in more ways than you’d expect
Over the past two days, the Senate inquiry heard that if the bill passes in its…
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A meteorite impact may have once rained gold on Western Australia – new study
We’re used to a lot of different natural things falling out of the sky. These can…
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FCAS project failure: ‘France, Germany characterised by totally different strategic cultures’
France and Germany said on Monday they had agreed to abandon a joint fighter jet programme…
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Koala numbers crashed across Australia 100,000 years ago. Global glacial cycles are likely to blame
It’s surprising how easy it is to see a koala every day in Australia’s major cities….
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Seahorses and shark fins are illegally trafficked. An AI tool could help stop this crime
Shark fins on a plane, seahorses in your bag and sea cucumbers in the post –…
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Marjane Satrapi’s masterpiece Persepolis transformed the world’s understanding of Iran
Satrapi finished her studies in France, where she settled, gaining French nationality in 2006. Last year,…
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Mangrove forests are healing after decades of human destruction
This imagery came from the Landsat satellite “which is highly sensitive to canopy changes, and provides…
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Q&A with Claudia Pearson
We sat down with illustrator and textile designer Claudia Pearson to learn more about her eponymous…
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Climate change may shift hailstorms towards Earth’s poles – new study
Everyone has a storm story – whether it’s that time you just escaped a downpour, or…
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‘Utter disregard for the risk to human life’: Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over AI safety
The US state of Florida has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman, alleging the…
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Why has Gen Z stopped dating?
A recent study found that Gen Z is in a “depressed dating economy,” meaning people aren’t…
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Rare male red pipefish carrying eggs on its trunk spotted in Sydney
The red pipefish (Notiocampus ruber) is a rare relative of seahorses and seadragons found only in…
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Mosquitoes learn to link the smell of DEET with a blood meal – new study
Mosquito repellents are key to protect ourselves from mosquito bites and the pathogens they might carry….
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500-million-year-old fossil helps fill a strange gap in our record of life on Earth
Roughly 500 million years ago, a strange event in the evolution of life on Earth seems…
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Is this the moment Ukraine has been waiting for? | DW News
A new report claims the character of the war is shifting in favour of Ukraine, and…
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Whatever the mirror test tells us, beluga whales pass it
In hours of underwater video footage from a New York aquarium, a beluga whale named Natasha…
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Trump’s Bible Study Video EXPOSED!
Political commentator and comedy writer Erin Ryan and former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Alyssa…
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How the Great Pyramid of Giza has survived 4,500 years of Egyptian earthquakes
The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt has survived more than 4,500 years. Earthquakes have repeatedly…
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Tiny fossils found in 1.7 billion-year-old mud yield clues to the evolution of complex life
Stored in an open-air warehouse in tropical Darwin, Australia, are dozens of trays containing cylindrical cores…
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Rare 567-million-year-old fossils refine our understanding of early animal evolution
From butterflies to blue whales, corals and worms, Earth is home to an incredible diversity of…
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Does the flu vaccine give you the flu? 5 questions about the vaccine answered
This year, the flu vaccine delivered as a nasal spray (FluMist) became available in Australia. It’s…
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A key science publishing platform is cracking down on AI slop
The pre-print website arXiv has announced that researchers who put their names to papers which included…
