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Think your dog can tell when you’re angry rather than sad? New research inside dogs’ brains suggests the answer might be more complicated than you think.
Tool use among non-human animals is more widespread than you might think.
AI systems can already monitor traffic lights, scan for potholes and answer residents’ questions – the hard part is making sure people can trust them.
AI-powered breakthroughs are raising big questions about how to do mathematics – and why we do it in the first place.
Intelligence is an energetically expensive luxury. And a new study in Science shows meat has never been the main fuel source for our ancestors.
Pedestrians are more likely to be killed by heavier cars – and even more so if the vehicle is taller, Australian-first research has found.
Mountains of ice far away in the northern hemisphere surely couldn’t change rainfall in Australia – or could they?
Dodo skull scans show the famously extinct birds were no less brainy than their surviving relatives – and may have roamed at dusk and dawn.
The closer you zoom in, the more fascinating it is.
Is the evolution of excrement the reason we exist?
A new study changes what we know about one of nature’s most enigmatic animals.
A royal commission focused on individual criminality may not address the underlying conditions that allowed corruption to flourish.
No one has ever seen one of these fish alive. But they are most likely still swimming in a part of the sea we hardly ever visit.
Young people are telling us their mental health is suffering. A new study shows why we should believe them.
A new study finds gaming supports mothers’ stress relief, skill development, and wellbeing, but parental duties and domestic labour still limit their play.
How did Australia’s climate fluctuate before the large-scale burning of fossil fuels? Old records can help us find out.
Australian state governments have spent years making up funding shortfalls by bringing in billions in gambling revenue.
More than three-quarters of teachers said their university education left them poorly equipped to teach sexuality and consent education.
Importantly, even if we don’t believe in free will, our sense of accountability stays intact, according to new research.
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Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Professor of Transport, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Health Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Geochronology, Curtin University
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Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Node Leader in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, Flinders University
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Visiting Fellow, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University
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Associate Professor, Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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University Fellow in Biodiversity, Charles Darwin University
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Research Associate in Behavioural Science at the Institute for Climate Risk & Response, UNSW