On a cattle station in remote South Australia, sandstone slabs have eroded out of the Earth – revealing fossils from half a billion years ago. This alien-looking imprint captures ...

WILL BERRYMAN Executive Director All of our stories are wonderful, as are our writers, but the Cosmos Weekly story on AI and construction made me think of industry in a new way. MA ...

LET’S SAY FROM the start that this issue wasn’t meant to be all about sound, but – just as a noisy party slips under doorways and echoes across valleys – the theme of our c ...

Palaeontologists have officially named and described Australia’s biggest dinosaur – Australotitan cooperensis, the southern titan. This colossal sauropod was as long as a baske ...

A team of US biologists has shown that even a brainless slime mould, Physarum polycephalum, can compute where to grow next based on mechanical cues. “People are becoming more int ...

A team of US researchers has made a tool that can generate electricity from sweat. Worn as a cap on a fingertip, it could be used to power small medical devices while subjects slee ...

In a result that won’t come as a surprise to dog lovers, US researchers have found that puppies are born with an innate ability to interact with humans. The team studied eight-we ...

01 Random nanowire networks – a type of computer made from crisscrossed microscopic wires – work best when stimulated “at the edge of chaos”: they produce their most intere ...

Some of the world’s earliest known cave art in Indonesia is “weathering at an alarming rate”, according to a study in Scientific Reports. Local archaeologists and site keeper ...

University of Queensland (UQ) researchers have built a quantum microscope based on the phenomenon Einstein once called “spooky action at a distance”. The new device takes advan ...