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Even as the fusion era dawns, Australia is still in the Steam Age
Steam locomotives clattering along railway tracks. Paddle steamers churning down the Murray. Dreadnought battleships powered by steam engines.
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Science & Environment
Heed the call of frogs
Australia’s frogs are under threat, and the Australian Museum is asking for your help to halt their decline.
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One year on: Stunning Webb telescope captures stellar image of star nursery
A spectacular new image has been taken by the James Webb Space Telescope to mark the one-year anniversary of the start of its science mission.
History & Culture
Questions raised about Western Australia as site of oldest signs of life
A new look at the oldest-known evidence of life, which is said to be in Western Australia, suggests the evidence might not be what it’s thought to have been.
Wildlife
Best foot forward
Small differences in the hands and feet of frogs are clues to big differences in behaviour.
Science & Environment
Create your own sustainability adventure
To encourage people to change things, you have to engage them. And the way to do that comes down to creativity.
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Discovery identifies Australia as birthplace of all modern mammals
Research has uncovered evidence that the evolution of mammals began in the Southern Hemisphere, not the Northern Hemisphere, challenging hundreds of years of scientific dogma.
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Giant wombats roamed the continent and now we have a complete description of their melons
The most complete skull of a giant wombat that roamed the continent 80,000 years ago has been described for the first time in history.
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Billabong of ancient life
Fossils found in a field on a farm in New South Wales are yielding a remarkable insight into life 15 million years ago in eastern Australia.
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Unspinning the secrets of spider webs
Stronger than steel and more elastic than rubber, spider silk has the potential to transform medicine, engineering, and materials science – if only we learn how to produce it.