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What caused the dinosaurs to go extinct 66 million years ago? Most scientists think an asteroid impact sealed their fate. But others think massive volcanic eruptions in India did the job. Now, scientists from Europe have used chemistry to support the asteroid theory and they can even say where the asteroid came from!

It’s happened to all of us – the computer program you’re using starts thinking and won’t respond. Sometimes, you just need to wait for it to finish what it’s doing. But other times, it’s stuck in a loop and it’ll never recover. So is it time to press the reset button?

Meet Aurora Foo: when a natural disaster strikes, she’s helping the helpers. Her job is assisting situation rooms and command centres around the country!

On 11 July, Australian scientists made a super-fast connection with a satellite. This feat of engineering required the team to aim a laser up in space at a receiver built into the back of a ute.

Do you ever get a stiff neck from doing assignments? Do your thumbs ever get sore after playing lots of video games? Sitting in the same position or doing the same task over and over can cause injuries and even change your bones! And we just found out that this has been going on for a very, very long time.

Mamutjitji Story is a new free app that links science with local knowledges belonging to the Ngalia Western Desert Aboriginal People. The story features an unusual insect called an antlion in English and Mamutjitji in Ngalia.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is really good at making pictures. From fake photos to phony paintings, they can look almost real. But AI is not very good with videos – and that’s because they can’t keep track of time. Engineers from the University of Michigan tackled this problem by imitating the human brain!

Imagine traveling back to the days of the dinosaurs, 100 million years ago. This is well before all of Australia’s marsupials – kangaroos, koalas, wombats and other furry, pouched critters – evolved. Instead, a team of palaeontologists have named it the Age of Monotremes.

Describing a new species of shark happens occasionally but describing a whole new family of sharks is super rare! Yet CSIRO researchers Will White and Helen O’Neill, with other scientists, have recently done it.

Aerogard protects us from mosquitoes and other pesky bugs whilst outdoors. But did you know that it was originally made to keep blowflies away from sheep’s butts?