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Whether or not we’re alone in the universe is one of the biggest questions in science. A recent …

With the most powerful radio telescope in the Southern Hemisphere, we have observed a twinkling star and discovered …

Bird beaks come in almost every shape and size — from the straw-like beak of a hummingbird to …

Queensland is renowned for its fossils of Australia’s largest back-boned animals — dinosaurs, of course, like the Jurassic …

Three and a half kilometers beneath the Mediterranean Sea, around 80 km off the coast of Sicily, lies …

On the vast expanse of the Nullarbor Plain in South Australia, two very different creatures, wombats and rabbits, …

Jumping spiders — one of the largest spider families — get their name from the extraordinary jumps they …

Earth must have experienced something exceptional 10 million years ago. Our study of rock samples from the floor …

Bennett’s tree kangaroos, one of Australia’s most mysterious marsupials, have long eluded researchers. Our new study, published in …

All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as …