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From medicines, food, fuel and emotional support, plants play important roles in our lives. However, up to 50% of flowering plants and trees could disappear if we don’t act.

Who knew fish poo could be a key to restoring coral reef health? In a study by Dr Grupstra’s team from Rice University in the United States, they found that poo from coral-eating fish contain microbes that can help corals thrive.

The average Australian throws out about 23 kilograms of clothes each year. Most of that rubbish goes straight to the tip, and it can take hundreds of years for those old clothes to completely break down. Even worse, as they break down, old clothes release greenhouse gases!

Lots of animals love to sunbathe for extra warmth. Scientists from La Trobe University have now discovered that freshwater turtles like “moon-bathing” too.

Scientists thought they knew how gas giants like Jupiter were made. Now a newly spotted planet in a faraway solar system is challenging the recipe.

Sharpshooter insects get their name for catapulting droplets of their pee! Why don’t they pee in streams like other animals, including us humans?

Scientists have always suspected that Venus had explosive secrets hidden beneath. Now, scientists have found an active volcano on the planet. And the evidence comes from a very old spacecraft!

Did you know that not all bees have hives? Many capricious masked bees live alone, but sometimes, some of them keep eyes out for one other.

You’ve heard of plant-based protein, but what about food made from electricity?

How many times have you thrown something in the bin and hoped that it was the right thing to do? We all want to do the right thing and want to put the right things into the bin. But can they really be recycled?