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While people in these regions might say they are living to be 100 or even 110, there is simply no evidence for their age. Dr Newman has tracked down 80 percent of the people in the world who are over ...

There's a growing movement to decolonise mathematics. Professor Rowena Ball explains what this means and why it is important.

Some wrens are calm, some are bold, a few are doddery. Helen says a wren can live to the ripe old age of thirteen years. Although, in reality they’re lucky if they get a third of that lifespan.

By connecting climate change to its material impact on the world, scientists have transformed an observation into a policy problem. The history of this discussion demonstrates the power of changing ...

What are foxes eating? The 300 million native animals that foxes kill every year consists of: reptiles: foxes kill 88 million reptiles each year, and all are native. They’ve been recorded killing 108 ...

Scientists have detected radio signals from hot gas surrounding a supermassive black hole that existed 12.9 billion years ago, according to new research from an international team of scientists ...

Discover the contributions that LGBTQIA+ people in STEM make, and the barriers people can face. Covering all areas of scientific endeavour, from astrophysics to climate change, science communication ...

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These are the tools of choice for Weliton Menário Costa, a PhD researcher with the ANU Research School of Biology.After studying goat behaviour in his home country, Brazil, he came to Australia and ...

While the sample appeared similar to the ketamine standard, Cassie’s trained eye saw something was off. The rate at which chemical X ran its race (known as the retention time) was similar, but its ...

While ghost mushrooms usually luminesce for around 22 hours a day, the peak of the light emission happens at night. “You just don’t see it in the day because there is too much other light drowning it ...