Indian scientists break a century-old limit on turning heat into electricity
Scientists in India have discovered a way to generate an unusually large electrical voltage from a small temperature…
Scientists recreated a tiny piece of the early universe inside a glass tube to study how life’s building blocks formed |
Long before Earth existed, before the Sun had fully formed, clouds of gas and microscopic dust drifted through…
World’s Largest Island Rodent Eradication Sparks Remarkable Invertebrate Comeback
Lord Howe Island cockroach Panesthia lata, one of the species that rebounded following rodent eradication. Credit: Justin Gilligan…
DNA study rewrites koala history, finding their collapse began 100,000 years ago, before humans arrived
Researchers have generally accepted the narrative of humans contributing to the decline of koalas in Australia. And while…
A Cannibal Star Finally Solves One of Astronomy’s Biggest Mysteries
Scientists have linked a mysterious class of repeating cosmic signals to a white dwarf star stealing material from…
World-First Study Reveals Human Hearts Can Regenerate After a Heart Attack
New research suggests the human heart may have a previously underappreciated ability to regenerate after a heart attack,…
Student rocket team successfully launches Galah rocket 10,000 feet in NSW outback
Students with space industry aspirations have been venturing to far west New South Wales to send their skills…
A PhD candidate creates a “universe in a bottle” to uncover how life on Earth began |
A groundbreaking study by Linda Losurdo, a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney, successfully simulated extreme chemical…
Sick kangaroos isolated by urban growth on NSW Mid North Coast
There are growing concerns for malnourished and sick kangaroos on New South Wales’s Mid North Coast. The roos…
Exactly how much more sleep and exercise you need to avoid having a heart attack
UK Biobank project reveals how much extra sleep, exercise and vegetables in our diet we need daily, to…
Australian bush rats reintroduced to Sydney’s parks with help of scented towels
Conservation ecologist Mareshell Wauchope’s favourite feature of the Australian bush rat (Rattus fuscipes) is its smell. “Their odour…
Scientists Unlock Quantum Computing Power by Entangling Vibrations in a Single Atom
Artist’s impression of the entangled logic gate built by University of Sydney quantum scientists. Credit: Emma Hyde/University of…