Is there a difference between different coloured balls?

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What makes Australia such a good place to play cricket?

As eyes turn to Bellerive Oval for the first Ashes Test ever held in Hobart, there’s plenty of speculation about how ...

Sorry fellas, you’re not ‘more variable’ than women, and it doesn’t explain the gender pay gap.

For over a century, the idea of ‘greater male variability’ has been used by some biologists to explain why there are ...

The man behind Australia’s first interactive science museum was ever an innovator.

Professor Mike Gore, the founder of Questacon, died in Canberra over the weekend. He was 87. He leaves behind the ...

That can be hard to define, so we went to ask the real experts: children!

What is a scientist? Well, that can be hard to define, so we went to ask the real experts: children! Here is w...

These are our favourite science images and the reasons why we love them.

In the Cosmos news room we get to see a lot of weird and wonderful images that come straight from scientists themselv...

We know that science is serious, we like to have a little fun with it on occasion.

We know that science is serious, we like to have a little fun with it on occasion. And that includes science memes. ...

Got a special researcher in your life? Try looking through the world’s most niche gift guide.

What do you get the researcher who has everything? What present could possibly top a giant telescope, or a home-made ...

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An Australian venture capital firm has brought a scientist on board – so how do they benefit from...

You might be familiar with the term artist-in-residence, but have you ever heard of a scientist-in-residence? This...

How has the unique Australian landscape shaped foodways, plant use and kinship systems among Abor...

Bringing Aboriginal food and plant knowledge to a new audience Most people know that Australia is home to many uni...

An experiment tests gender stereotyping in computer science.

Even children as young as 6 can develop ideas that girls don’t like computer science and engineering as much as boys ...