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A dire wolf has howled for the first time in 10,000 years after a US laboratory successfully ‘de-extincted’ a litter of puppies.
Barry Wilmore said that astronauts, NASA and Boeing need to spend time analyzing the Starliner mission to improve future flights: ‘We all own this’.
Australian nutrition company FoodiQ Global will experiment if astronauts can colonise oyster mushrooms in outer space using microgravity.
A state police force has fired a warning shot at those who might believe they have got away with historical sex offending: don’t be too confident.
A Falcon 9 rocket with a Crew Dragon atop blasted off, but the focus of its arrival at the International Space Station is the long overdue return of NASA duo Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.
Future palaeontologists will unearth a bizarre layer of rock, filled with plastic, concrete and wind turbines. What will they make of us?
Scientists fear that crucial insights into the origins of the human species will be lost if the planned reburial of thousands of ancient Aboriginal remains goes ahead in outback NSW.
Would you eat meat grown in a laboratory? You will soon have the opportunity, from top-end quail foie gras to mass-market lamb mince.
Mars may once have been home to sun-soaked ‘vacation-style beaches’ with lapping waves and gentle breezes, newly collected data shows.
Australia and New Zealand face the highest prevalence of breast cancer internationally, a new study has found, also showcasing progress on reducing mortality.
If the first launch of an Australian-made rocket goes to plan, a jar of Vegemite will be floating in space as soon as March 15 in a step that will bring the nation closer to space sovereignty.
The threat level of asteroids usually goes down with time, however the danger posed by 2024 YR4 has been increasing since it was discovered in December.
Attempts to rescue 90 surviving false killer whales stranded on a remote Tasmanian beach have failed, forcing authorities to make ‘tough, confronting’ choices.
One of the largest studies of its kind has found women are more generous than men.
An Australian study has provided the technology to rapidly accelerate widespread surveying of ocean microplastic contamination, using artificial intelligence to find a breakthrough.
Switching between hot and cool water will produce the optimal boiled egg balance between a firm white and creamy yolk – for those who can be bothered.
The guaranteed benefits of eating red meat outweigh the “low-certainty” evidence used to discourage its consumption, researchers say.
They’re the bane of summer days at the beach. But who knew bluebottles were so beautiful, and so interesting?
Demonising ‘the old plastic spatula’, an American study has had to walk back its findings after falsely claiming dangerously high levels of contamination in plastic cookware.
The US President’s goal to reach the Red Planet has sidestepped the Artemis program that he championed during his first term in office.
After his firm has made a clock that’s accurate to one second in 40 million years, Professor Andre Luiten turns his attention to a problem of national security.
Amid the deep fakes and ‘brain rot’, Australian innovator Farzaneh Ahmadi harnessed the technology likely to define the next decade in order to bring hope to thousands.
Leading researchers have agreed to have their work ‘peer reviewed’ by youngsters. Could the results help solve science’s communications problems?
A stretch of parkland between the Perth homes of Kerry Stokes and Gina Rinehart will be converted into a habitat for the endangered Carnaby’s black cockatoo.
We process information very slowly – but our senses are much faster, researchers say.
A scientific review of the effect of microplastics has found they cause infertility and are associated with colon cancer.
Tanya Plibersek has agreed to consider new research bird experts say should stop a $1bn wind farm in its tracks.
After last year’s wetter-than-usual El Nino summer, the weather bureau will tone down the emphasis on individual climate drivers.
The company behind the Arnhem Space Centre blamed the Northern Land Council for making the project untenable in the NT, with the spaceport to move to a Cape York site.
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