I was inspired to begin my journey partly by a 1980s rock comedy film from an Australian creator who may now be in the direst of straits

The 2024 deal handed the Peter Thiel-founded company 10 billion rows of data covering every store, shift and one of Australia’s largest workforces.

The Australian National University apologises to academic Liz Allen after she accused senior leadership within the institution of misconduct, including then-Chancellor Julie Bishop.

The Panama Canal Authority is expanding what it is calling “temporary modifications to the lock’s transit capacity” as the forecasts for a worsening d...

Children's lung capacity caught up with their peers in less polluted areas once a clean air zone came in, a study shows.

Dineth Fernando – who moved to Australia with his family in February – says he just needed to ‘find the word and play – that’s all’ * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Dineth Fernando’s first language isn’t English and he only arrived in Melbourne six months ago – but already he’s claimed an international Scrabble title with an Australian flag draped around his shoulders. The 13-year-old won the 2026 world youth Scrabble championships in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi over the weekend, becoming the third Australian representative in the competition’s history to take out the prize. Continue reading...

Prof Wyn Evans, who raised concerns over treatment of female staff at Institute of Astronomy, was subject to ‘baseless’ investigation, judge rules

The discovery of a new type of astrophysical object could take us closer to solving one of astronomy's biggest puzzles from the early universe.

Denmark joins Norway at the pinnacle of EV adoption, with 97 per cent of private buyers opting for an electric car in the latest month.

Restructuring research funding as a choice between discovery and application gets the economics wrong, the evidence wrong and the people wrong.

Defence Minister Richard Marles says the US, not Australia, will decide how long its nuclear-powered submarines will remain at Perth’s HMAS Stirling naval base based on American ‘operational requireme...

Fatemeh Pasandideh and Atefeh Ramezanisadeh sought asylum after the Asian Cup in March this year, due to fears of reprisal from the Iranian government.

The UK's AI Safety Institute said recent behaviour from Anthropic and OpenAI models was malicious and unprecedented.

A Tokyo zoo has temporarily shut down its lion enclosure to the public as extreme heat claims three lions.  

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Team in Ohio finds swapping to electric has ‘very large’ impact, despite study being scaled back by Trump cuts

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The labels on some of Tasmanian producer Stuart Young's handcrafted goods say some ingredients may come from "further afield". But that was a reference to the Australian mainland, not China.

A Four Corners investigation has uncovered products whose labels did not match independent scientific testing, raising serious questions about the integrity of Australia's food supply.

A Four Corners investigation has uncovered products whose labels did not match independent scientific testing, raising serious questions about the integrity of Australia's food supply.