Echidna population count underway in Queensland amid urbanisation and climate change fears
They may be one of Australia’s most recognisable animals, but much about the elusive echidna remains a mystery…
AI hampered productivity of software developers, despite expectations it would boost efficiency
It’s like a new telling of the “Tortoise and the Hare”: A group of experienced software engineers entered…
“Blue zones” longevity claims validated by new research
A new peer-reviewed paper published in The Gerontologist provides the most comprehensive scientific response to date addressing recent critiques of…
Stress among older adults linked to worse surgery recovery
Stress before surgery may matter more than doctors once thought. A new Duke University School of Medicine study finds that even…
Two bacterial shutdown modes explain antibiotic persistence and relapse
New study reveals that bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment through two fundamentally different “shutdown modes,” not just the…
JWST observations reveal massive helium clouds escaping from exoplanet WASP-107 b
Astronomers from the University of Geneva, working with colleagues in Canada and the United States, have captured the…
67 million-year-old fossil reveals the origin of freshwater fish hearing
A tiny fossil fish from Alberta is forcing scientists to rethink a story that has sat quietly in…
Department for Environment and Water
The independent 2024 Statewide Climate Change Risk and Opportunity Assessment – prepared by Deloitte – takes a whole-of-state view…
AI helps archaeologists build low-cost stone age video games in days
Museums have spent decades trying to make the distant past feel alive. Audiovisual shows, touch screens and digital…
Small shifts in blood sodium may influence human brain excitability
Even within the healthy range, small differences in blood sodium were associated with measurable changes in brain excitability,…
Scientists create Bose-Einstein condensate leading to a new fifth state of matter
In a Columbia University laboratory in New York, physicist Sebastian Will and his team have reached one of…
Genetic variant appears to protect against blood cancers
Over time, hematopoietic or blood stem cells can quietly acquire mutations that push them to divide just a…