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'Seven sisters': star system with multiple Earth-like planets found
Seven planets have been found in the "goldilocks zone" of a star that will live for 10 trillion years.
Seven planets have been found in the "goldilocks zone" of a star that will live for 10 trillion years.
Australian men have been knocked off the top spot for world life expectancy, a new report published on Wednesday in The Lancet, has shown.
Rather than a hyper-intellectual, alien activity practiced by a remote priesthood, science is hit and miss, the ever-changing product of less-than-brilliant people, just like every other human activity.
A NASA researcher has grown bacteria that survived thousands of years inside crystals.
Hundreds of scientists, environmental advocates and their supporters have rallied in Boston to protest what they see as increasing threats to science and research in the US.
Research suggest moderately overweight people with type-2 diabetes can benefit from the surgery.
As parts of Australia set heatwave records and the government considered building new coal-fired power stations, the vast continent to the south last week quietly marked a milestone.
A Senate hearing has been was told that the CSIRO should withdraw its recommended maximum acid emission levels for rock art on the Burrup Peninsula.
Scientists have for the first time clearly defined Zealandia, a continent that sits to the east of Australia.
Boston: Woolly mammoths - or, at least, animals with very similar DNA - could be brought back from extinction within two years, say scientists behind a ground-breaking resurrection project.
The combination of hot water and this specific organic material is extremely exciting.
Something is lurking out there but astronomers don't know what it is.
A group of archaeology students from ANU who helped historians in their efforts to document the history of the Székely people in Romania will travel to the US next month to present their findings.
Scientists have discovered an unexpected but mutually beneficial relationship between a galaxy and the supermassive black hole that sits at its heart.
In our recent study, we wanted to find the simplest way to mathematically describe the difference between how the planet once functioned and how it now functions.
Successive governments have failed to register the Burrup on UNESCO's World Heritage list.
Looking for help to break the cycle of overeating and under-exercising? Scientists say we need look no further than the brain of the humble roundworm.
Canberra man Paul Jenkins is breaking ground for paraplegics across Australia trialling a new exoskeleton device.
CSIRO staff cite redundancies as part of the reason they failed to carry out study.
Human activity heats up cities to such an extent that on the weekends when we're having a sleep-in, the centre of town is measurably cooler.
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