Earth’s Freshwater Future: Extremes of Flood and Drought

As the satellite data record continues to get longer and more detailed, scientists are beginning to…

Creatives in the country? Blockchain and agtech can create unexpected jobs in regional Australia

Digital technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics are said to make many jobs redundant…

Despite positive trends, women remain underrepresented in animation

A new study examines the ecosystem of the animation industry and finds pluses and minuses for…

Online gambling: Children among easy prey for advertisers who face few sanctions

With concerns growing that children and vulnerable people are being targeted by rogue online gambling advertising,…

Harvesters of light

They fan out into lily-pad-shaped disks, branch haphazardly like the antlers of deer, and hold fast…

Chinese tombs yield earliest evidence of cannabis use

Researchers uncover the earliest known evidence of cannabis use, from tombs in western China. …

Elephants walk more direct paths under risk of poaching

Elephants move faster and straighter when moving through risky areas, researchers have discovered, meandering more when…

Solar activity forecast for next decade favorable for exploration

The last astronauts of the Apollo program were lucky. Not just because they were chosen to…

Why do massive (and not-so-massive) stars form?

The Milky Way Project: Probing Star Formation with a New Yellowball Catalog presents a study of…

NASA's Mars 2020 will blaze a trail for humans

When a female astronaut first sets foot on the moon in 2024, the historic moment will…