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Ocean-faring birds are sometimes found with bellies full of plastic. But very little research examines why birds make the mistake of eating plastic in the first place. It turns out that marine plastic debris emits the scent of a…

On Monday November 14 this year, a beautiful full moon will grace our skies. Full moons always rise around sunset, so look for it towards the east during evening twilight. Every month, occasionally even twice a month, the full moon…

With the excitement of getting to the polls on Election Day many people will have a hard time keeping their feet on the ground, but astronauts who vote literally have to strap themselves down so they don’t float away. Astronauts…

Primary Industries Minister Niall Blair has announced the NSW Government is collaborating with UTS researchers to assess the capabilities of the Clever Buoy shark-spotting sonar technology off Port Stephens, as part of the $16m Shark…

A new study by researchers at MIT and elsewhere could provide some valuable guidance on the most effective strategy to meet emissions-reduction commitments under last year's Paris Agreement on climate change. Rather than adopt a…

The most devastating consequence of Zika virus infection is the development of microcephaly, or an abnormally small head, in babies who were infected in utero. Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and…

Globular clusters are swarms of about a million stars bound together by their gravitational field and distributed roughly spherically, which have formed from a single cloud of interstellar gas and dust. As their ages are close to that…

Never before have astrophysicists measured light of such high energy from a celestial object so far away. Around 7 billion years ago, a huge explosion occurred at the black hole in the center of a galaxy. This was followed by a burst of…

At MIT’s 2016 Open House last spring, more than 100 visitors took rides on an autonomous mobility scooter in a trial of software designed by researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), the…