A solar-powered and tent-sized Australian prototype machine that can suck CO2 from the air has secured a $700,000 contract to capture and store carbon. The deal, part of a project backed by corporates including the owners of Google and Facebook,… Read More »Australian company secures $700,000 deal for carbon capture and storage machine
The world’s earliest seafarers who set out to colonise remote Pacific islands nearly 3,000 years ago were a matrilocal society with communities organised around the female lineage, analysis of ancient DNA suggests. The research, based on genetic sequencing of 164… Read More »Earliest Pacific seafarers were matrilocal society, study suggests
As many as 600 beehives and at least six million bees have been destroyed and another eradication zone has been established in New South Wales following the deadly varroa mite outbreak. Concerns remained around almond harvest as well as the… Read More »Bee industry confident varroa mite can be contained after 600 hives destroyed in NSW
What makes a piece of music seem happy or sad? Whether it has been composed in a major or minor key is a significant factor. It’s part of what distinguishes the cheeriness of Walking on Sunshine from the pensiveness of… Read More »What makes a song sound happy? It depends on your culture, study finds
The fossils of our earliest ancestors found in South Africa are a million years older than previously thought, meaning they walked the Earth around the same time as their east African relatives like the famous “Lucy”, according to new research.… Read More »Early human ancestors one million years older than earlier thought
Boris Johnson has issued an open invitation for disaffected Russian scientists to defect to the UK, as he used the G7 summit to argue that allowing Russia to prevail in Ukraine would usher in a highly damaging era of global… Read More »Johnson issues open invitation to Russian scientists ‘dismayed by Putin’s violence’
It was a young miner, digging through the northern Canadian permafrost in the seemingly aptly named Eureka Creek, who sounded the alarm when his front-end loader struck something unexpected in the Klondike gold fields. What he had stumbled upon would… Read More »Gold miner in Canada finds mummified 35,000-year-old woolly mammoth
Four frog species in Western Australia that lay their eggs on land have been identified as a new genus and named after a retired high school music teacher-turned-scientist. Researchers have classified the frogs into the distinct biological group Anstisia. Their… Read More »Frogs that lay eggs on land – new genus named after WA teacher whose lab was a campervan
From plant-based meat that “bleeds” to milk grown in a lab, fake meats and dairy have come a long way in recent years. But there is another alternative that scientists are training their sights on, one with the most challenging… Read More »Go fish: Danish scientists work on fungi-based seafood substitute
China carried out a test of “ground-based midcourse anti-missile intercept technology” that “achieved its expected purpose”, the defence ministry in Beijing has said, describing it as defensive and not aimed at any country. Beijing has tested missile interceptors before; the… Read More »China carries out anti-missile tests amid opposition to US systems in South Korea