For at least 65,000 years, First Nations Australians have understood Earth’s place in the solar system and the universe, write...

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In the centuries since the discovery of the famously uncuttable atom, scientists and philosophers alike have delved deeply into its...

In complete defiance of one of nature’s most fundamental laws, a species of tiny, frenetic bat is living 10 times...

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For seven decades, the world worked to map the heavens – a massive endeavour that ran from the 19th century...

Before Galileo, Descartes and Newton, Thomas Harriot made some of the breakthroughs ascribed to his famous peers – but as...

A close encounter with the gorilla matriarch at Melbourne Zoo inspired Elizabeth Finkel to tell her story and that of...