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Solar panel station in Australian outback in front of mountains

Indigenous calendars could make solar power more efficient

US submarine in Australia

Australia is eyeing uncrewed vessels to patrol the vast Pacific Ocean

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Australia’s stealthy military drone sub will be called Ghost Shark

Australia’s stealthy military drone sub will be called Ghost Shark

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Array of Australian radio telescope prototypes built in the Outback against a sky showing stars and the Milky Way galaxy

Construction starts on the world’s biggest radio telescope, which will ‘hear’ signals billions of light-years away

A Boeing drone flying in Australia.

Ghost Bat drones could fly alongside the next generation of Air Force fighter jets

By Kelsey D. Atherton

A hill made of oyster shell

We have a lot to learn from Indigenous people’s oyster-shucking practices

By Philip Kiefer

Boats on the waters of Rhode Island.

Has Captain Cook’s lost ship been found? Maybe.

Orca whale pod in a line in the ocean while hunting

Even blue whales aren’t safe from orcas

By Purbita Saha

A fossil of a sawfly

Feast your eyes on exquisite fossils from an ancient rainforest (and more)

Ukraine’s Dnieper River

Ancient rocks hold the story of Earth’s first breath of oxygen

satellite image of smoke from the australian wildfires

Australian wildfires fueled an algae bloom bigger than the continent itself

By Philip Kiefer

A humpback whale breaches water and hangs in mid-air, in front of forested cliffs.

A rare humpback whale ‘megapod’ was spotted snacking off the Australian coast

An artist's depiction of an extinct pterosaur, a flying reptile relative of dinosaurs.

This dragon-like reptile once soared over Australia

Close-up of a furry, grey and beige mouse with round ears standing on red dirt.

Endangered Species

An ‘extinct’ Australian mouse has been thriving on a remote protected island

Australotitan dinosaur compared to an excavator (c)Eroman Museum

This Australian behemoth is officially the largest dinosaur on the continent

Simulation of a black hole.

Astronomers may have found the surprisingly elusive medium-sized black hole

By Charlie Wood

An open dictionary with a red cover on a table

Local languages are dying out and taking invaluable knowledge with them

A bigfin squid floating in the water

The strange and ethereal bigfin squid just showed up off the coast of Australia

By Rachael Zisk

A koala yells out during last month's bushfires in southeastern Australia.

Australia’s horrific fires may permanently change the country’s landscape

By Grant Williamson et al./The Conversation

A lab with pipettes

A small coronavirus breakthrough could aid in the search for a vaccine

By Ian Christopher Davis/The Conversation