Turning hemp waste, such as the stalks and trash left over from harvest, into an industrial product is an emerging industry.

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As climate change pushes species out of heat-ravaged zones and towards cooler regions, Australian researchers have found that ...

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Budgies seem to have a sixth sense about where to find water, even in harsh conditions of the Australian desert.

Australian researchers have studied the dance repertoire of cockatoos, and investigated why they bust these moves.

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Satellite images showing the Earth illuminated in artificial light are becoming a glaring symbol of ‘light pollution’.

In the far north of Manitoba, in the middle of a subarctic landscape, a small community coexists with the mighty polar bear.

We Aussies love our bad-boy antiheroes, and the armour-clad bearded bushranger Ned Kelly is the most notorious of them all.

One of the most profound questions we can ask is whether there are living organisms elsewhere in the universe.