The benefits of wearing face masks to help slow the spread of COVID-19 are now well understood, but scientists are still searching for better materials to...
Around 15,000 light-years away, an active black hole seems to be periodically lighting up an otherwise unremarkable cloud of gas with gamma rays. But there's a...
Scientists are ironing out the kinks for an 'anti-solar power' cell, one that can harvest energy at nighttime, even when the sun isn't shining.
It could be a brother or sister. It could be a neighbour. It could be a person you work with. We probably all know someone who...
When you see a face in a cloud, in the slots of a power point, or on the side of a house, there's a term for...
Plastics were not made for human consumption, and yet consume them we must. Tiny remnants of these synthetic polymers have now leached into our air, food...
One of the major challenges in turning quantum technology from potential to reality is getting super-delicate quantum states to last longer than a few milliseconds –...
New research exploring the strange boundaries of the placebo effect has turned up another mysterious oddity: placebos have the power to reduce neural markers of emotional...
The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn attention to loneliness in Australia.
Technology that can convert salty seawater or brackish water into safe, clean drinking water has the potential to transform millions of lives across the globe, which...