Cosmos Briefing: Accessing Antarctica
Watch three experts discuss who should be allowed access to Antarctica and why.
Remote and wild, Antarctica was once solely the domain of hardcore explorers. As the continent becomes more accessibl...
Earth Sciences
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Video
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Cause determined for India’s deadly disaster
A team of scientists find that the 2021 disaster was triggered by a massive rock and ice avalanche.
An international coalition of 53 scientists has determined the cause, scope and effects of the devastating natural di...
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Magazine
Time travel and tipping points
Truly coming to grips with the vastness of geologic timescales isn’t easy, but it could be key to...
by Lauren Fuge I’m hiking down a tributary of Arkaroola Creek, right in the middle of Cryogenian Period. Above me ...
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Does nature have rights?
Ahead of World Environment Day this Saturday, we explore the legal ‘rights of nature’.
In April this year, the Blue Mountains City Council, west of Sydney, became the first council in Australia to enshrin...
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22 scientists honoured by the AAS
The 2021 Australian Academy of Science Fellows have been announced.
The Australian Academy of Science has just announced their 2021 Fellows, recognising the outstanding contributions of...
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Mercury found in Greenland’s glacial meltwaters
Over six years, scientists repeatedly found high concentrations of mercury in glacial rivers.
Some of Greenland’s glacial meltwaters are unusually high in mercury, according to a study published in Nature Geosci...
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Earthquake early warning? There’s an app for that…
Forget going high-tech to give citizens warning of an earthquake: mobile phones and a decent inte...
An app that converts smartphones into makeshift seismometers and could save lives by providing early warning of earth...
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Explainer
Explainer: What is a rock?
The definition is caught between a rock and a hard place.
Everyone is familiar with rocks. It’s hard not to be. They’re everywhere – we walk on them, skip them across ponds, d...
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Rewilding isn’t just about the animals
It’s vital to consider the landscape, or “geodiversity”, scientists say.
As this year kicks off the “Decade on Ecosystem Restoration” to try and repair some of the damage caused by humans, s...
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Explainer
What is radiometric dating?
Dive headfirst into the weird world of dating by radioactive decay.
You’ll hear it often in stories about palaeontology and archaeology: “the wood was dated using radiocarbon dating”, “...
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Research
Living fossil discovered below Earth’s surface
Microbe may have been in evolutionary stasis for millions of years.
A microbe that feeds on radioactivity has been at an evolutionary standstill for up to 175 million years, researchers...
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Forecasting volcano eruption style
Magma viscosity could help scientists identify the hazards of future eruptions.
Scientists studying the 2018 eruption of Kīlauea volcano in Hawai'i have discovered a way to predict the violence of ...