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72 per cent of UK trees threatened by changing climate, plus the simple spud’s complex genetics
Lab Notes: When astronomers make mistakes
Nobel Prizes, kitchen fumes and a biography of Francis Crick
Lab Notes: When is it time to throw in the towel?
Paul Nurse and assessing the health of Australian trees
Lab Notes: Why you shouldn't leave your phone charging
Deep sea nodules, ideas in ecology, and three brilliant scientists not always on the money
Lab Notes: Have we found dark matter?
The big cats that stalked early humans and why ancient concrete outlasts the modern stuff
Lab Notes: The AI maths wars
AI boost for people with dyslexia and how algorithms shape what we read
Lab Notes: Where could bird flu go next?
As fire ravages the Northern Hemisphere, is Australia ready for a record-breaking El Niño? And why optimists live longer than pessimists
Lab Notes: Why are we ticklish?
A moon beyond our Solar System, dust storms on Mars and questioning of reality
Lab Notes: The redback sex-death somersault
The debate over who should be in the genus Homo, and the trailblazing botanical illustrators, Harriet and Helena Scott
Lab Notes: The 'Hail Mary' effort to rescue a telescope
How nematodes love smelly feet, plants that trap insects, Australians at CERN and vale Peter Raven
Lab Notes: How do flowers know when to bloom?
Dark Matter search from inner Melbourne, Gelion update, Bach and maths and vale Bill Oddie
Lab Notes: In an era of AI hacking, how safe is the census?
Looking inside cells, and how seals hear so well underwater
Lab Notes: What will we see in a 10-year movie of the universe?
Pioneers past and present, and fiddling with life brings a heavy caution
Lab Notes: How do we predict the snow season?
Fossil graveyards an archive of past climate and ecology
Lab Notes: What's it like to be in a clinical trial?
Monitoring Antarctic glaciers and the science of gluten-free baking
Lab Notes: Is AI taking over mathematics?
As bird flu arrives in Australia, an endangered species is being quarantined
Lab Notes: Is space junk destroying the ozone layer?
How bird brains help us understand human brains, and how eugenics had as much hand in the birth control movement as did feminism
Lab Notes: The bird flu risk for Aussie wildlife
Insects and pain and The Selfish Gene turns 50
Lab Notes: What happens when a whale dies?
Kris sword with an intriguing history, echidnas, tropical forests and Australia’s energy potential
Lab Notes: Tallest tree in East Asia
The First Inventors
Lab Notes: Plants can hear you
AI tools in ocean research and a tribute to Dame Bridget Ogilvie
Lab Notes: Lead may be hiding in your clothing
Sex testing at the Olympics: beware the exceptions
Lab Notes: Giant dino discovery fulfils a childhood dream
Science and the budget, bird flu closer to Australia and a guide to pollination
Lab Notes: Can AI chatbots make you delusional?
Celebrating David Attenborough’s 100th birthday and a new way of making vaccines
Lab Notes: What happens if a major ocean current … stops?
Australian science under strain
Lab Notes: AI data centres are coming to remote Australia
Response to Australia’s ESO rejection
Lab Notes: Aussies loved Artemis II — and they want more
Getting more from fertiliser, viral DNA's vital role and help from hookworms!
Lab Notes: Is measles back?
Australia says no to European Southern Observatory collaboration, applications of quantum mechanics and testing trees’ response to rising carbon dioxide
Lab Notes: What can we grow on the Moon?
Australian and New Zealand research presented at Falling Walls Berlin
Lab Notes: Can we replace lab animals?
Saving Australia’s R&D, robot for cleaning up oil, and quantum physics with Paul Davies
Lab Notes: NASA's mission to the Moon
Possums thought to be extinct found in Papua, early Indigenous ingenuity, and how we adjust to ultra-processed food
Lab Notes: Super-K flu is here … but it's not our biggest problem
New idea for the origin of language
Lab Notes: Slip! Slop! Slap! SUCCESS!
Astronomy and toxicology converge at Caltech
Lab Notes: Why air traffic won’t return to normal for months
How the US came close to losing half its science funding
Lab Notes: The surprising history of the backyard sprinkler
Stories told by feet
Lab Notes: Why buying a star name is nonsense
Ancient humans lived in an Indonesian cave until Homo sapiens arrived
Lab Notes: Skincare, pregnancy and a minefield of mixed messages
Social media ban impacts political knowledge of young Australians
Lab Notes: Can we tap the brakes on energy-hungry AI?
Humpbacks threat, green cities and EVs, and origins of life
Lab Notes: What's behind the rising tree death rates?
Mysterious stellar object discovered
Lab Notes: The oldest rock art in the world…that we know of
Kiruna: The city that moved to make way for a mine
Lab Notes: Why UV levels are so high in Australia
A portrait of Dame Miriam Rothschild
Lab Notes: The Treaty of the Metre: how the metre came to be
Mary Somerville — Brilliant polymath, scientific genius
Lab Notes: Why do whales strand en masse?
Celebrating 50 years of The Science Show
Lab Notes: Tips to reduce microplastics exposure
Émilie du Châtelet - portrait of a leader of the Enlightenment
Lab Notes: How is sunscreen SPF tested?
Author Terry Pratchett’s links to science and Adelaide
Lab Notes: How maths explains nature's weirdness
Evidence shows no link between pain relief drugs and autism
Lab Notes: Are bioplastics the future of packaging?
3 young high achievers in science, and Sydney hosts space conference
Lab Notes: Why aurora season isn't over yet
Rare earth minerals – we’ll need geologists to find them
Lab Notes: How are long-range weather forecasts made?
Bragg winners for science writing, more from the Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science and water droplets used for geoengineering
Lab Notes: How breastfeeding can protect against cancer
The Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science and a dilemma over the appropriate use of artefacts from a Roman shipwreck
Lab Notes: How your brain chooses your next snack