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A team of physicists has just completed a decades-long quest to experimentally demonstrate the physical mechanism of auroras

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An Australian National University (ANU) team has designed an interstellar-spacecraft propulsion system for the Breakthrough Starshot project - based around a light sail and 100 million lasers

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University of New South Wales research: looking ‘weird’ protects robot lizards from predation. Turns out predators don’t like odd-looking prey.

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Despite last year's devastating loss when the University of Queensland's COVID-19 vaccine had to be abandoned, researchers have still kept on with development of their molecular clamp technology which is hoped to provide a more stable vaccine response without the previous false positive HIV results

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Study: Teen cannabis use between the ages of 11 and 17 was associated with lower test scores at school, which had the downstream effect of lower income and job status in early adulthood

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Nearly 31% of global farmland is at 'high risk' of pesticide pollution that can seep into water supplies and impact human health

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Research has found that dingoes never breed with feral dogs, meaning that efforts to cull feral dogs across Australia predominantly affect this apex predator

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Mother accused of children's deaths carries deadly genetic mutation | Scientists petition for her release

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Multi-screening may mess with your memory

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A 99 million-year-old lizard (named Yantarogekko Balticus) preserved perfectly in amber

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Learning difficulties linked to poor brain connectivity. Research found children's brains were organised around hubs

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Early Celts believed wine should be for all

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Would you notice if your calculator was lying?

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Australian researchers have found further evidence of the likely impact of fluoxetine, the active ingredient in anti-depressants such as Prozac, on wild fish

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Brain approaches tricky tasks in a surprisingly simple way

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Global groundwater extraction a “ticking time bomb”

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Perception of musical pitch varies across cultures

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Researchers have used stem cells to make a 3D model of vocal cords that developed potentially cancer-causing changes after being doused in cigarette smoke extract.

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An analysis of studies involving more than 23,000 people with dementia has found outdoor activities and massage are more effective than drugs in treating aggression and agitation.

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A five-year study in Indonesian waters has confirmed that wild-roaming reef manta rays (Manta alfredi) form selective bonds with other rays, providing evidence of structured social relationships.

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The Atomic Bomb Dropped Over Hiroshima Created A New Kind Of Minerals

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‘Mind-reading’ may help those who cannot speak

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The Milky Way achieved its present form about 10 billion years ago when it merged with a smaller, neighbouring galaxy, dubbed Gaia-Enceladus, new observations and modelling show.

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Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have shown that an algorithm with no training in materials science can scan the text of millions of papers and uncover new scientific knowledge.

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A prehistoric burial mound in southwest France was used and re-used by locals for more than two millennia, according to an analysis of bones and teeth from the site.

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New water cycle discovered on Mars

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Across all primates, including humans, "the showiest males have the smallest testes."

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This "little" black blob is 40 billion kilometers across (Earth is 13,000km across for reference) Voyager 1 has been traveling close to 16km/sec for the past 41 years, and has still only traveled half the total diameter of the black hole

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Table-top LIGO illustrates quantum breakthrough in gravitational wave hunt - Mirrors the size of pinpricks let researchers hear quantum noise at room temperature.

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Balloons are 32 times more likely to kill seabirds than hard plastics, Australian research shows

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