Scientists have developed a solid-state battery material that doesn't diminish after repeated charge cycles, a potential alternative to lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles

Can a universal basic income help address homelessness?

Astronomers have piloted a new image treatment procedure for studying the orphan stars between galaxies

Study indicates flood events at dams will significantly increase over next 80 years due to out of date rainfall modelling and climate change.

Large dams restrict movement of threatened platypus populations, limit gene flow, and impact conservation

Study shows urgent action is needed to preserve the world’s largest ice sheet from global warming

Quantum scientists deliver world’s first integrated circuit at the atomic scale

Scientists emulate nature in quantum leap towards computers of the future: First ever quantum circuit

Artificial intelligence is breaking patent law. The patent system assumes that inventors are human

No sun, No problem. UNSW researchers show that Earth’s radiant infrared heat can be used to generate solar electricity at night.

'Aphantasia', Absence of Visual Imagination, Shown Detectable Through Pupil Dilation

A brain imaging study of young people at high risk of developing bipolar disorder has for the first time found evidence of decreased connections between key areas of the brain in late adolescence

Paleontologists Excavate 'Incredibly Detailed' Fossils With Preserved Subcellular Structures

Comets' heads can be green, but never their tails. After 90 years, we finally know why

The melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet may have already passed a point of no return, a new study has found, and scientists say it could contribute to sea level rise over coming centuries and possibly millennia.

A new study shows that people with chronic pain have an imbalance of neurotransmitters in the part of the brain responsible for regulating emotions

Every spot of urban green space counts - "An international study of parks and gardens finds even the humble roadside verge plays an important role in the environment and for our health."

More greenhouse gases were produced in 2018 than any previous year, despite more than 20 countries reducing their carbon emissions since 2000, research from an international group of scientists has shown

COVID vaccine misinformation is running rampant and eroding public confidence

Native Australian alpine plants may not be able to adapt or migrate quickly enough to survive rapid changes in climate change, a new study has found

Scientists studying the effects of tropical fish intruding into temperate reefs have identified the first victims of ‘tropicalisation’ of temperate waters

New research finds that people with aphantasia -- the inability to visualize mental images -- are harder to spook with scary stories

The Adams Event

Why the brain is programmed to see faces in everyday objects

Babies and asymptomatic cases account for up to half of COVID-19 infections in the under-five age group, which has implications for vaccination programs, a new study has found.

A faraway galaxy with almost no dark matter has threatened to break our theory of galaxy formation

New glove-like device mimics sense of touch

Renewable energy transition makes dollars and sense

Overconsumption and growth economy key drivers of environmental crises: scientists’ warning on affluence

Engineers find neat way to turn waste carbon dioxide into useful material

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