why the world is obsessed with sending objects into orbit
Beyond the race for scientific, commercial and military purposes, there is another space race of…
Meet Irene Curie, the Nobel-winning atomic physicist who changed the course of modern cancer treatment
The adage goes “like mother like daughter,” and in the case of Irene Joliot-Curie, truer…
fig wasps try to balance sex ratios for survival but they can get it wrong
Television nature programmes and scientific papers tend to celebrate the perfection of evolved traits. But…
Mysterious molecule found on brown dwarf casts further doubt on potential signs of life on Venus
Brown dwarfs: too small to be stars, too big to be planets. Only discovered in…
How VR and AI could help the next generation grow kinder and more connected
Empathy is not just a “nice-to-have” soft skill – it is a foundation of how…
Why chromium is considered an essential nutrient, despite having no proven health benefits
You might best know chromium as a bright, shiny metal used in bathroom and kitchen…
We teach young people to write. In the age of AI, we must teach them how to see
From the earliest year of school, children begin learning how to express ideas in different…
Australians want to spend more on space – but we don’t really know where we’re going
This week, Sydney hosts the world’s largest space conference, attracting astronauts and heads of space…
Why we should be skeptical of the hasty global push to test 15-year-olds’ AI literacy in 2029
If 2022 was the year OpenAI knocked our world off course with the launch of…
‘Whisper networks’ don’t work as well online as off − here’s why women are better able to look out for each other in person
Whisper networks are informal channels that women use to warn each other about sexual harassment,…