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The insect world is abuzz with life, but is there anything on their minds? Follow Amalyah Hart into a world of intricate research designed to explore the complexities of insect consciousness.

New research that shows how a mouse’s brain produces the placebo effect may help the development of better pain-relieving drugs.

A new study of audience members’ physical response to a concert supports the theory that music has played a pivotal role in human evolution.

This story, published in Cosmos Magazine Issue 95, was highly commended in the UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing… Read more: Model or monster?

Brett Kagan, a fast-talking neuroscientist with the charged energy of someone on the cusp of a breakthrough, opened the door… Read more: The consciousness question in the age of AI

Ten fruit flies, encased in individual test tubes, pace the lengths of their glassy quarters like the prisoners they are.… Read more: The possible dream

A new report has concluded that 24 of the world’s richest companies are hiding climate inaction behind a veil of… Read more: Not-Zero: Report finds rampant greenwashing among richest global corporations

It’s a source of helium, oxygen, silicon, aluminium, iron, manganese and titanium, and legal headaches.

On a summer’s morning in 2019, in the small New South Wales farming community of Bolong, on the Shoalhaven River,… Read more: Seaweed excites this marine scientist – even though it nearly killed her

As the climate catastrophe morphs from looming threat to ever-present reality, our relationship with it is changing. Australians in particular are… Read more: Australia’s environmental scorecard: how are we performing? And whose job is it anyway?

On a soaking wet spring day at Deakin University’s Waurn Ponds campus in Victoria, under a leaden sky devoid of… Read more: “So smooth:” Students test drive solar car they spent three years designing

Woodside Energy’s quarterly revenue has nearly doubled in a year thanks to strong gas pricing, following a similar announcement from oil and… Read more: Woodside nearly doubles revenue as fossil fuel giants cash in on oil and gas prices

Western Australia is to enshrine its commitment to net zero emissions by 2050 into law, but environmental groups warn that… Read more: Environmental groups warn WA’s gas projects will derail new net-zero legislation

UNSW Sydney projects have been awarded a glut of funding by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) to support research… Read more: Six ways Aussie researchers hope to deliver ultra low-cost solar

Leaders in the EU and the UK have announced markedly different plans to manage the escalating energy crisis, as August… Read more: Truss lifts ban on fracking, and will prop up fossil fuel companies in energy crisis

Australia, a country with vast tracts of agricultural land, escalating natural hazards and a booming resources industry, is a world-leader in field robotics.

UK supermarkets are scrapping date labels on hundreds of products to tackle food waste: could it happen here? And is it microbiologically safe?

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