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Lights on for Australia’s first dark matter lab
New underground lab to shed light on dark matter
Why are bigger animals more energy-efficient?
What will motivate landlords to fix cold and costly homes for renters?
Warming oceans may force New Zealand’s sperm and blue whales to shift to cooler southern waters
Australia may be heading for emissions trading between big polluters
New research centre set to boost maritime industries
Research centre to tackle global pollution with ‘green’ plastic
Wildlife recovery spending after Australia’s last megafires was 13 times less than $2
COVID lab leak theory is dead. Here’s how we know virus came from a Wuhan market
Can an ambitious theory unify biology, neuroscience and psychology?
Tall timber buildings are exciting, but to shrink construction’s carbon footprint we need to focus on less sexy ‘middle’
Royal commission delivers damning interim report on defence and veteran suicide
We should, if we can, cool planet back to pre-industrial levels
‘Let it rip’: Barangaroo, a masterclass in planning as deal-making
A key feature contributed to sauropods getting so enormous, new dino foot study reveals
What created continents? New evidence points to giant asteroids
Ice shelves hold back Antarctica’s glaciers from adding to sea levels – but they’re crumbling
We need to talk about monkeypox without shame and blame
US has finally passed a huge climate bill
Savanna burning under Australia’s carbon credit scheme is harming human health
New book calls for radical overhaul of pornography studies
Telix and UQ-led consortium awarded Australian Research Council grant
Once fish factories and ‘kidneys’ of colder seas, Australia’s decimated shellfish reefs are coming back
15 years of experiments have overturned a major assumption about how thirsty plants actually are
A volcano is erupting again in Iceland
Location key to improved autonomous vehicle vision
Why this research is more important than you think
Length of Earth’s days has been mysteriously increasing, and scientists don’t know why
Record coral cover doesn’t necessarily mean Great Barrier Reef is in good health
Japan’s Old Enough and Australia’s Bluey remind us our kids are no longer ‘free range’ – but we can remake our neighbourhoods
Where are all ants? World-first ‘treasure map’ reveals hotspots for rare species
Uncovering links between diet, gut health and immunity
Space debris is coming down more frequently
Most adults with autism can recognise facial emotions, almost as well as those without condition
UOW statistician awarded by American Statistical Association
Greens’ climate trigger policy could become law
What allegations of Alzheimer’s research fraud mean for patients
Destruction of nature takes a toll on human psyche
Is James Webb Space Telescope finding furthest, oldest, youngest or first galaxies?
New stem cell models for aging and eye diseases
Earth’s ancient water cycle was key to making continents, study shows
Outstanding science leaders appointed to STA STEM-sector committees
Native New Zealand tree puts sting on pain
Fire protection research is heating up
COVID shield: spray coating to shield surfaces from viruses, bacteria
Finding ‘good oil’ at sea
National security research receives boost