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Australian scientists have just released the most comprehensive report card to date on the health of Australia’s most important river system, the Murray-Darling Basin. It shows that government policies from the past decade have mostly failed to improve outcomes for people and nature along the river…
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The risks of solar geoengineering will be magnified if critics are ignored and researchers are allowed to self-regulate.
A technique known as “enhanced rock weathering” promises to remove billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the atmosphere. But it’s crucial to be able to measure how much CO₂ is captured.
Pumped hydro and batteries can easily provide all the storage needed for 100% renewable electricity generation, eliminating the need for polluting gas power plants.
The energy stored in an atom can be released in two main ways: fission or fusion. Nuclear physicist, Professor Matthew Hole explains the difference between the two.
Since colonisation cultural burning in the Great Sandy Desert ended. Now the work of caring for desert country (pirra) with fire (jungku, or warlu) has begun again.
Everybody wants to start a podcast these days – even AI. What does this mean for the future of science communication?
What can we learn from the Joker character about our cultural fascination with duplication and disintegration?
Much mystery still surrounds Pluto and its moons. But in new research published in Nature Communications researchers announced they’ve found carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the surface of Pluto's largest moon, Charon.