Scientific discoveries and research
The race to build reliable quantum computers is fraught with obstacles, and one of the most difficult to overcome is related to the promising but elus...
Scientists say that multiple Earth system components appear closer to destabilization than previously believed, putting the planet in increased danger...
Microbes could help oak trees cope with environmental change. Publishing in Cell Host & Microbe, a study observing oaks growing in a natural woodland...
Human activity has lessened the resilience of modern coral reefs by restricting the food-fueled energy flow that moves through the food chains of thes...
Free-floating planets, or as they are more commonly known, rogue planets, wander interstellar space completely alone. Saying there might be a lot of t...
To mark the United Nations' International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the Institute of Physics and IOP Publishing celebrate women who are advan...
Australian women face significant risk when disclosing gender-based violence in sport and often receive inadequate or harmful responses, according to...
Constantly checking your phone during conversations with a partner—a behavior known as phubbing—may be less about bad manners and more about deeper ps...
The Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA)—the statutory agency responsible for planning the Basin's water resources—has just shared the starkest news...
For the first time, scientists have recorded how baby dunnarts, tiny carnivorous marsupials from Australia, reach their mother's pouch not long after...
A study reveals that sticklebacks with complete bony plates have survival rates several percentage points higher than those with reduced plates, indic...
Researchers in China have isolated the effects of electronic friction, showing for the first time how the subtle drag force it imparts at sliding inte...
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