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Private companies are increasingly challenging national space agencies in a new space race, which comes with great opportunities but also huge risks.
The weather segment at the end of news bulletins has stuck to a familiar format for more than 50 years. But the question of who should actually present the weather has been in a constant state of flux.
The Trinity Lutheran case signals the Supreme Court’s willingness to interpret separation of church and state as religious discrimination. What will this mean for the future of vouchers and school choice?
Here we explore our past and present struggles with the most significant infectious diseases human beings have faced.
While research for a cure for MND is underway, first we need to know what causes it.
Science is supremely beautiful, but can also be brutal and unforgiving if you stray from the well-worn pathways.
There are four key things Donald Trump’s election tells us about the state of journalism today.
The University of Michigan’s Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Heather Ann Thompson explains why Americans must demand better access to the nation’s prisons.
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, but treatments are still far from successful in clinical trials. Here is what we know about the disease, and what is yet to be uncovered.
A new, “baby dragon” dinosaur revealed in a fossil returned to China is a striking example of the discoveries that might be lost when scientific specimens are illegally removed and traded.
All the awareness campaigns have had little effect on the ‘garden variety’ mental illness that’s causing most of the disability and death.
Earth is a relatively dry planet compared to some of the other ocean worlds in our Solar system. Life needs water so what about life on these other places?
2017 marks the 200th anniversary since the 1817 publication of Dr James Parkinson’s seminal work on what he called the “Shaking Palsy”.
The true promise of ageing research is that rather than tackling individual diseases one at a time, a single drug to treat ageing would treat all of the diseases that arise in old age, at once.
Health reporting requires asking the right questions and doing quality research. But specialist skills are also handy, especially when it comes to knowing the language and processes of science.
Australia is a place that prides itself on the fair go. And yet, all is clearly not well.
Insights from psychology, neuroscience, economics and political science on how the incoming president might move people from the extreme right or left of the political spectrum to a sociable centre.
Food, drug and other companies often sponsor research in the hope it might produce results favourable to their products. How can we ensure such research remains independent?
The marine reserves review has recommended major changes to the Coral Sea, but not for the better.
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