‘Single origin’ is a phrase you’d likely see at your local cafe, along with smashed avocado. Now, it applies to pooches, too. Researchers from Stony Brook University in the US have found that, contrary to previous thought, all domesticated dogs probably share ...

As I spoke to University of Tasmania researcher, associate professor Elizabeth Leane, I could hear sighing gusts of wind in the background. “I’m looking directly at an ice breaker,” she loudly voiced over the gale. By that she meant the Aurora Australis, a red, 95-metre behemoth ...

Unlike Snow White’s seven dwarfs, not-for-profit education and training institution employees may wish to think twice before whistling while they work. A fresh batch of results from the Whistling While They Work 2 project has been released, showing non-profit education and training institutions ...

In 1699, William Dampier, an Englishman, collected shells and plants from the beaches of the rugged west coast of Australia. These were shipped back to England and ultimately displayed at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum and the British Museum in London. These ...

Not quite, but nearly. The scientists at the University of Adelaide, together with the CSIRO, have paved the way for it by developing a mechanism that converts carbon dioxide – the principal exhaust pollutant – to a synthetic form of methane. ...

It wasn’t a bird, nor a plane. It would’ve been a grey kangaroo-sized giant, flying turkey. A team of paleontologists from Flinders University have discovered the remains of five extinct megapodes – medium-to-large chicken-like birds with small heads – one ...

China’s largest consumer humanoid robotics company, UBTECH, has partnered with the University of Sydney to establish the UBTECH Sydney Artificial Intelligence Centre. Based at the university’s Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies, the centre is dedicated to research into intelligent ...

Fluoxetine, the antidepressant in drugs such as Prozac and Lovan, has been found to increase the risk of birth defects when taken during pregnancy. A meta-analysis of 16 studies, published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, determined that fetuses ...

The Australian Animal Health Laboratory, which hosts research into exotic livestock diseases, is just one facility flagged for upgrade under the government’s new National Research Infrastructure Roadmap. In it, chief scientist Dr Alan Finkel, the Roadmap’s chairman, identified nine research ...

In 2003, Tasmania became the first state in Australia to repeal the use of “gay panic” as a provocation defence; and in March 2017, Queensland became the latest state to revoke its use. This leaves South Australia at odds with ...