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31 October 2025

Australian marsupials contaminated with potentially harmful ‘forever chemicals’

Australia; VIC The University of Melbourne Science of The Total Environment
30 October 2025

Ancient lichen paved the way for plants and animals to thrive on Earth

Australia; International; ACT The Australian National University Science Advances
30 October 2025

New broad-spectrum antivenom achieves a lot with a little

International Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Nature
28 October 2025

‘Broken’ genes a common factor in marsupial fur colour

Australia; NSW; VIC La Trobe University,The University of Melbourne,The University of New England Biology Letters
28 October 2025

Earth’s ‘boring billion years’ created the conditions for complex life

Australia; NSW; SA The University of Sydney,The University of Adelaide Earth and Planetary Science Letters
25 October 2025

Which viruses were really Napoleon's dynamite?

International Universite´ de Paris Cite, France Current Biology
24 October 2025

Poo coffee may be the world's most expensive because it's fattier and filled with more flavour compounds

International Central University of Kerala, Kasaragod, India Scientific Reports
24 October 2025

High speed cameras capture snake bites in slow-mo

Australia; VIC; TAS Monash University Journal of Experimental Biology
22 October 2025

Myth busted: Vocal fry isn't just a 'girl thing'

Australia; NSW Macquarie University JASA Express Letters
22 October 2025

Paralysis ticks prefer heads and necks of pets

Australia; QLD The University of Queensland Australian Veterinary Journal
22 October 2025

Ancient giant sloths weren't slothing around

International Vanderbilt University, USA Royal Society Biology Letters
22 October 2025

Not hunters but collectors: the bone that challenges the ‘humans wiped out Australian megafauna’ theory

Australia; NSW; VIC; QLD; WA The University of New South Wales,The University of Melbourne,Griffith University,Curtin University Royal Society Open Science
21 October 2025

Traffic vibrations help scientists dig deep into Lake George’s seismic past

Australia; NSW; ACT The Australian National University Seismological Research Letters
21 October 2025

How does our brain process stories? It depends on the details

International McGill University, Canada JNeurosci
20 October 2025

Can animals be tricked by optical illusions?

International Universitat Wien, Austria Frontiers in Psychology
17 October 2025

How old are you really? Researchers find a new way to measure biological age

Australia; NSW; WA Edith Cowan University,The University of Sydney,The University of Western Australia Engineering
17 October 2025

New insights into how salt gathers at common solvent surfaces

Australia; NSW; SA; ACT Flinders University,The University of Newcastle,The Australian National University,The University of New England,CSIRO Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
16 October 2025

Training AI to identify ancient artists

Australia; QLD Griffith University Scientific Reports
16 October 2025

Giving high school girls incentives to study STEM

Australia; SA Flinders University Physics Education
16 October 2025

First known hand of ancient human relative discovered

Australia; International; NSW ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH),University of Wollongong,Stony Brook University, USA Nature
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15 October 2025

Manta rays dive to extreme depths to build mental maps of vast oceans

Australia; New Zealand; International; WA Murdoch University,University of Auckland,The University of Western Australia Frontiers in Marine Science
15 October 2025

Don't just 'pink it and shrink it': We need sports shoes designed for women

International Simon Fraser University, Canada BMJ Open Sports & Exercise Medicine
14 October 2025

Can we tap along to vibrations like we tap along to music?

Australia; International; NSW Western Sydney University,Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium JNeurosci
13 October 2025

Skin deep: The secret to ancient fish scales’ survival

Australia; WA Curtin University Environmental Microbiology
10 October 2025

Does your dog have a toy addiction?

International University of Bern, Switzerland; Vetmeduni Vienna, Austria Scientific Reports
9 October 2025

Ancient Italians used elephant bones to make jumbo tools

International Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy PLOS One
9 October 2025

Losing Nemo: almost all aquarium fish in the US are caught in the wild

Australia; International; NSW The University of Sydney,Princeton University Conservation Biology
8 October 2025

Lizard genetics provide new perspective on evolution

Australia; International; QLD The University of Queensland Evolution Letters
4 October 2025

Fancy some ant yoghurt? What if it was prepared by a Michelin chef?

International University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark iScience
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2 October 2025

EXPERT REACTION: Celebrated primatologist Jane Goodall has died

Australia; International; VIC; SA; ACT Australian Science Media Centre
1 October 2025

Hold your horses: Rest may reduce the risk of bone injuries in racehorses

Australia; VIC; QLD The University of Melbourne,Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Journal of the Royal Society Interface
30 September 2025

Nature weaves a 3D tapestry, giving butterfly its green wings

Australia; NSW; WA; ACT Murdoch University,The University of Western Australia,The University of Sydney,The Australian National University PNAS
30 September 2025

Walking shapes how our brains process sound

International University of Würzburg, Germany, Zhejiang University, China JNeurosci
26 September 2025

Pet pooches may mean bubs are less likely to develop asthma, but feline friends don't help

International The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, Canada European Respiratory Society (ERS) Congress
26 September 2025

Discarded world war weapons and ships are now home to thriving marine life

International Department of Marine Research, Germany, Senckenberg am Meer, Germany (Paper 1), Duke University, USA (Paper 2) Communications Earth & Environment; Scientific Data
25 September 2025

New shark safety measure: bite-resistant wetsuits can reduce injuries

Australia; NSW; QLD; SA Flinders University,Southern Cross University Wildlife Research

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