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19 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: October 30, 2026.
Victoria's Court of Appeal rejects her appeal and grants prosecutors' challenge, replacing a 33-year non-parole period with a life term; she is only the second woman in Australia to get that sentence.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the incident in Wangaratta was no accident, and counterterrorism investigators are on the case after a passerby helped arrest the driver.
A University of Sydney team used DNA, museum specimens and more than 1,000 citizen-science photos to split two known species into five.
Tenuicruris piscanexum is known from two leg bones found near Richmond, including the first lower-leg bone of its kind from Australia's Cretaceous.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese confronted Sam Altman by phone at the U.N. and said an inquiry will examine whether OpenAI can be criminally charged. The company waited until Sept. 10 to tell Canberra, by email to a generic government inbox.
'At first sight, I thought it was just two whales resting on the surface.' The study, published Wednesday in Discover Animals, says she never tried to lift the calf, suggesting she knew it was dead soon after birth.
Nestory Irankunda and Connor Metcalfe found the net in Vancouver to open Group D with a statement win, leaving Australia level with co-hosts the United States atop the table.
With koala densities in the Mount Lofty Ranges already past sustainable levels, researchers say sterilizing a fraction of females each year could avert a slow-motion catastrophe — and avoid a Victoria-style cull.
A bird bander's casual snapshot uploaded to iNaturalist led to the remarkable rediscovery of Ptilotus senarius in remote northern Australia.
Bird bander's casual iNaturalist upload leads to identification of rare Ptilotus senarius, proving citizen science's growing importance in biodiversity research.
Ptilotus senarius, missing since 1967, was spotted by bird bander Aaron Bean and identified by botanist Anthony Bean through iNaturalist observations.
Scientists have identified Arenaerpeton supinatus, an ancient amphibian preserved with rare skin traces, after the fossil spent decades forgotten inside a garden wall.
A forgotten fossil embedded in a retaining wall has been identified as one of Australia's most remarkable prehistoric finds, revealing a fearsome river predator with rare skin preservation.
Dawn services for Anzac Day were disrupted in three cities as hecklers targeted Aboriginal acknowledgments of country, sparking national debate over reconciliation and respect.
A prototype from CSIRO, RMIT, and the University of Melbourne harnesses quantum superposition to store energy, validating a stunning prediction that defies conventional battery physics.
Australian researchers demonstrated a complete quantum energy cycle for the first time, with the counterintuitive finding that quantum batteries charge faster as they grow larger.
A CSIRO deep-sea expedition used towed camera technology at depths of up to 3,000 meters to catalogue four new elasmobranch species and capture the first footage of a sand tiger shark actively hunting in the wild.
Severe Tropical Cyclone Narelle made landfall north of Cooktown on Friday morning with wind gusts exceeding 250 km/h and no reported deaths, before tracking toward the Northern Territory where it threatens to re-intensify over the Gulf of Carpentaria.
A narrow 5-4 vote reveals deep divisions on the RBA board as Australia faces its first consecutive rate increases since mid-2023