Tropical or temperate?
Study highlights competing impacts of warm waters and acidification.
Aiming for a gender-equal world
Global report highlights inequalities and provides roadmap for action.
Thumbs up (and over)
Manual dexterity emerged two million years ago, study suggests.
Musicians’ networked brains
Study finds neural benefits of early music training.
Climate change could make sexier fish
But it’s not all good news in our future oceans.
Glowing prehistoric beetle
Fossilised amber sheds more light on insect evolution.
Egghead concussion
Yolk study sheds light on traumatic brain injuries.
Lessons from the past
Could Indigenous wisdom help us create a “good Anthropocene”?
Diamonds put the heat on cells
Tiny gems help scientists shed light on thermal conductivity.
The wonders of seagrasses
They help fight marine plastic pollution, study finds.
Is this a new Silent Spring?
Decline of insects is a catastrophic loss we can ill afford.
What fuelled Australia’s ‘Black Summer’ fires?
Scientists highlight links to climate change, call for more research.
Talking about death and dying
A new online course breathes life into a taboo topic.
Cats versus quolls
Why feral felines are a greater threat to native wildlife.