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The Bureau of Meteorology’s spring and summer climate hazards outlook. 2024-25 Higher Risk Weather Season National Preparedness Briefing. Australia is no stranger to extreme weather. From heat waves and droughts to flooding rains, hailstorms or fire weather, our continent experiences it all. To help Australians prepare for these hazards, the Bureau of Meteorology regularly briefs … Read more

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Infrared: (Herschel) ESA/NASA/Caltech, (Spitzer) NASA/JPL/Caltech, (WISE) NASA/JPL/Caltech; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Webb ERO Production Team; Image processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Major, CC BY For the past few years, a series of controversies have rocked the well-established field of cosmology. In a nutshell, the predictions of the standard model of the universe appear to be at odds with … Read more

Coelacanths are deep-sea fish that live off the coasts of southern Africa and Indonesia and can reach up to two meters in length. For a long time, scientists believed they were extinct. In new research published in Nature Communications, we reveal the best-preserved coelacanth fossil ever found from the ancient period hundreds of millions of … Read more

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New research co-led by Cornell University examines thousands of years of Arctic sled dog ancestry and reveals when and how Siberian and Alaskan sled dogs’ DNA mixed. “There was a real concern from Siberian breeders—who were mostly racing their dogs—that they were sending out their dogs’ DNA samples for analysis, more … Read more

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Soap operas are known for outrageous schemes and scandalous affairs, but an NYU researcher finds that they can also serve as effective interventions for preventing intergroup violence in conflict-ridden areas by shaping social norms, promoting understanding of different perspectives, and encouraging people to create change. In an analysis of research on … Read more

This image made from SpaceX video shows its capsule, center, carrying tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman with his crew after it reached the Gulf of Mexico near Florida’s Dry Tortugas early Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024. Credit: SpaceX via AP A billionaire spacewalker returned to Earth with his crew on Sunday, ending a five-day trip that lifted … Read more

Simulations depicting the potential solar physics science that the Artemis-enabled Stellar Imager (AeSI) on the moon could accomplish. Credit: Rau et al. (2024) Ground-based interferometry on Earth has proven to be a successful method for conducting science by combining light from several telescopes into acting like a single large telescope. But how can an ultraviolet … Read more

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Women living with chronic pain face medical gender bias and high levels of discrimination in the workplace, according to new research highlighted in a joint submission by the University of Melbourne and Western Sydney University to the Victorian Inquiry into Women’s Pain. Between 2023 and 2024, University of Melbourne and Western … Read more

Artist’s vision of a cold super-Jupiter in the HD 118203 system. It is an extremely massive gas planet orbiting its star in an orbit six times that of Earth. Astronomers believe it has very low temperatures. Credit: UMK Astronomers from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun have discovered a new planet in the constellation of … Read more