How a church row over a pre‑Christian ritual reflects an ancient Italian village’s battle for survival
Calabria’s Bovesi people embrace their ancient pre-Christian spirituality, hoping it will stem both cultural and population losses.
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Many massacres later, Obama gets serious on gun law reform
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. The Founding Fathers of the American Constitution might…
Earth’s oldest evidence of life is written in stone – but it’s at risk of disappearing
Despite a fossil record that spans billions of years, microbialites are surprisingly fragile.
Michelin came for the food. It found what makes South Australia special
South Australia’s first Michelin selection celebrates a food culture rooted in place, shaped by migration and sustained by the people behind every plate and welcome.
How NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will open a window into the Milky Way
From supernovae in distant galaxies to the packed centre of the Milky Way, the new Roman telescope will help us see and understand the ever-changing cosmos.
Prepare yourself – wild solar weather ahead
During the early hours of this morning (3:42am AEST) our sun released a strong solar flare. It follows right on the heels of a more moderate flare that was released from the same region of the sun on Tuesday…
A look back at Cassini’s incredible mission to Saturn before its final plunge into the planet
With only days to go before NASA’s Cassini space probe ends its two-decade mission to explore Saturn, what has it revealed about the ringed planet, the second largest in our solar system?
Sunspots and solar flares, created by the sun’s magnetism, can affect the Earth’s surface
The sun’s magnetic activity causes auroras, and the relationship between solar flares and auroras reveals an 11-year cycle; we’re experiencing a particularly busy one right now.
New study shows mysterious solar particle blasts can devastate the ozone layer, bathing Earth in radiation for years
Every few thousand years, the Sun unleashes a burst of high-energy particles that can have serious consequences for life on Earth.
Incest case attests that, in Costa Rica, abortion is legal in name only
The case of a 12-year-old Costa Rican girl, who was raped by her father and denied an abortion, is dividing a nation that prides itself on its human rights record.
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