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The 15th edition of The Best Australian Science Writing, edited by Zoe Kean and Tegan Taylor, contains 39 essays and stories that “tell tales of the universe that scientists have worked hard to reveal ...

You don't need to be an engineer to think like one — but mastering their way of solving complex problems can transform how ...

For many critics of religion, particularly within atheist circles, the Big Bang theory is frequently presented as a decisive scientific evidence against belief in God and the biblical doctrine of ...

Not only can the drug metformin help to effectively manage type 2 diabetes, but it may also give older women a better chance ...

This is not a story about weakness. It's about what happens when the human nervous system confronts a challenge it wasn't ...

We interview the developers of Aphelion and talk about the game's design philosophies and how that shaped the two-person ...

Three fanfiction experts give their insight into the the social, collaborative, imaginative community of writers and stories.

Although Earth is approximately spherical, its gravity field doesn't adhere to the same geometry. In visualizations, it more closely resembles a potato, with bumps and divots. One of the strongest of ...

The researcher and science communicator has a new book out on carbon, ‘the spinal column of life’ that helps answer fundamental questions about our origin, our existence and our destiny ...