Medals at Tokyo olympics are 100% recycled from discarded electronic equipment

Sharing the menu: sharks take shifts - Study finds sharks do ‘shift work’ in order to share their resources.

Sharing batteries provides better storage

A paper in Development reveals the discovery of an entirely new plant organ

Snails carrying the world’s smallest computers on their shells have helped explain the mystery of their own survival against all odds.

University of Queensland (UOQ) researchers have built a quantum microscope based on quantum entanglement instead of illumination

A new study in Science shows cells use their DNA content as an internal scale to check how big they are - and to know when to stop growing

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Multi-screening may mess with your memory

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

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

Early Celts believed wine should be for all

Would you notice if your calculator was lying?

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

Brain approaches tricky tasks in a surprisingly simple way

Global groundwater extraction a “ticking time bomb”

Perception of musical pitch varies across cultures

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.

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.

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.

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

‘Mind-reading’ may help those who cannot speak

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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