'Homo' who? A new mystery human species has been discovered in Israel
Yossi ZaidnerAn international group of archaeologists have discovered a missing piece in the story of human evolution.Excavations at the Israeli site ...
US scheme used by Australian farmers reveals the dangers of trading soil carbon to tackle climate change
ShutterstockSoil carbon is in the spotlight in Australia. A key plank in the Morrison government’s technology-led emissions reduction policy, it...
We found traces of humanity's age-old arms race with coronaviruses written in our DNA
NIAID-RML, CC BY-SAA coronavirus may have swept across East Asia more than 20,000 years ago, leaving traces in the DNA of people in modern China, Japa...
The sentencing of George Floyd’s killer has lessons for policing in Australia and New Zealand too
www.shutterstock.comThe imminent sentencing of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the 2020 murder of George Floyd will be closely wat...
Australia's media industry shed 5,000 journalists to survive – what does this mean for those who left, and those left behind?
Lukas Coch/AAPIn the 2000s, the internet shredded the media’s business model. The media’s influence fragmented and many employees paid the...
We found more than 54,000 viruses in people's poo — and 92% were previously unknown to science
ShutterstockResearch published today in Nature Microbiology has identified 54,118 species of virus living in the human gut — 92% of which were p...
Novavax is absent from Australia's 2021 vaccination schedule. But it could be a useful booster later on
Novavax recently released excellent results from phase 3 clinical trials, finding its COVID-19 vaccine demonstrated 90.4% efficacy overall after two d...
Podcasting overcomes hurdles facing unis to immerse students in the world of workers' experiences
ShutterstockPodcasting is helping to revolutionise tertiary education. Universities have found themselves caught between shrinking budgets and an offi...
rethinking the myth of Daphne, a woman who chooses eternal silence over sexual assault
Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Apollo and Daphne, made between 1622 and 1625.Stefano Chiacchiarini/ShutterstockAncient Greek myths and folktales are shaping p...
COVID has disrupted our big cities, and regional planning has to catch up fast
Blaine O'Neill/Flickr, CC BY-NCSince the 1950s, the world has experienced a sixfold increase in the number of people living in cities. City dwellers n...
Australia's handling of the pandemic ranked more accountable than most, but not perfect
Governments worldwide spent more than US$14 trillion fighting the health and economic effects of the coronavirus in 2020, much of it very quickly.Amon...
how to halve serious injuries and deaths from teenage driving accidents
ShutterstockTeenage drivers are a risky bunch. They are inexperienced and don’t always drive carefully, sometimes with tragic consequences. Vari...
