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5 ways to spot if someone is trying to mislead you when it comes to science
Watch out for science deniers with these five handy tips, including how they attempt to discredit experts and spread dangerous misinformation.
Mars Perseverance Rover Powered by 1998 iMac Processor
The brains that power the Mars Perseverance Rover are actually very old, and used to live in those colourful iMacs, but why?
King Island blows (in the best possible way)
Harnessing the ocean as a renewable energy source is taking off. And Australia is well placed to ride that wave!
Science is perfecting transparent wood aka how to ruin a Trojan horse
Advances in creating transparent wood are becoming both sustainable and exciting! Imagine what you could achieve with this material...
The scientific breakthrough of the century: pigs can play videogames
Can pigs play videogames? The question that has had scientists stumped since time began has finally been answered.
How Australians can watch the Mars Perseverance Landing
The Mars Perseverance rover will attempt a landing on Mars this Friday morning and you can watch it live. Here's how.
Staggeringly beautiful hunks of space are being auctioned off this month
You can check out the auction of dozens of beautiful pieces of moon, mars, and asteroids ranging in price from sub $1k USD to over $200k USD.
Experiment sees Spinach send emails about explosives, not Nigerian princes
This spinach sends emails: not spooky chain mail, lucrative offers from Nigerian princes, or penis enlargements, but alerts for explosives.
New chess AI makes mistakes like a regular player, grandmaster it is not
A new chess AI called Maia plays like a normal person, with mistakes and all, so you can learn how to play better.
How wombats poop a square out of a round hole
Researchers finally have the answer to why wombat's poops are square instead of round, and it's all about their intestines.
South Australia backs up 100% solar effort with Australia's lowest power prices
South Australia was briefly 100% solar-powered back in October. Now, the state has the lowest electricity wholesale prices in the country.
Earth's richest men fight over space
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are fighting over satellite space for their company's respective space internet programs.
Thousands of pages of CIA declassified UFO documents released
You can now browse thousands of recently declassified CIA pages about UFO's for free thanks to The Black Vault.
Forget Mars, live on a cool asteroid belt space station instead
A Finnish physicist has proposed the idea of building an inhabitable space station orbiting the dwarf planet Ceres.
Mars digger says farewell after clumpy sand kills mission
After two years of unsuccessfully attempting to dig into Mars' surface, one cute little probe tells us its story of failure.
Cannabis: how best to ingest
Medical cannabis is an option many Australians are turning to, but what's the best way to ingest and use the product?
Someone is planning an RC car race on the moon
In October 2021, some high schoolers are going to get to face off with their own designed racecars on the surface of the moon.
Twilight Struggle and why we’re still obsessed with the Cold War
What if a board game could give us the chance to play out the Cold War and figure out just why the US-Russia conflict is so fascinating?
Inverted control users are the best people (just ask me)
Inverted y-axis controls just make sense and you can't convince me otherwise. A new study will surely confirm this.
Game of Houses: the secret power in European royal history
What happens when you look at family lines through matrilineal data instead of the fathers? You find a cool new way to appreciate history.
