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Authorities are rolling out new vaccinations to meet a new wave of COVID-19 infections.

This may look like an ordinary stretch of the seabed, but it's not. If you look closely it's teeming with rare and bizarre creatures.

Egyptian antiquities authorities have unveiled ancient workshops and tombs discovered recently at a Pharaonic necropolis just outside the capital Cairo.

Passengers on a river cruise in the Northern Territory could hardly believe their eyes when six-metre crocodile, known as "Dominator", began devouring a juvenile croc within metres of their boat.

New research reveals how a medical device helped one man with paralysis walk naturally again, more than a decade after an injury.

New satellite photos from Maxar Technologies have captured the reality of the devastating floods that wreaked havoc on northern Italy last week.

The groundbreaking Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii has revealed features of the Sun's surface as small as 30 kilometres across for the first time.

One of the biggest names in vacuums has become the latest company to introduce robots into our homes.

A synthetic gel that contains a form of cannabis is being used to help relieve anxiety in children with an inherited learning disability.

The smells produced by humans are an important part of what draws mosquitoes to us.

Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano rumbled to life again this week, belching out towering clouds of ash that forced 11 villages to cancel school sessions.

New York City is sinking from the weight of its own buildings, an alarming study has found.

The Southern Annular Mode (SAM) is one of the "main mechanisms influencing Australia's climate" and meteorologists say it's just reached one of its strongest positive levels on record.

Australia could soon see a repeat of the conditions that sparked 2019-20's devastating bushfire season, as our planet is almost certain to set a new hottest year on record in the next half-decade.

In a national first, scientists combined the DNA of the child's parents with 0.1 per cent of that of another woman.

Temperatures began climbing in mid-March and skyrocketed over the course of several weeks, leaving scientists scrambling to figure out exactly why.

Eli Lilly and Co says its experimental Alzheimer's drug appeared to slow worsening of the mind-robbing disease in a large study.

Nearly 500 people with lower back pain from Sydney and Perth took part in a trial of cognitive functional therapy, led by three universities.

The Northern Territory government has given the green light for on-shore gas drilling to go ahead at the Beetaloo Basin, despite warnings from scientists about its dangers.

The record-breaking cavern is so large it dwarfs the small boat of researchers, as they managed to send a camera inside of it.

One of Earth's largest habitats could see its rich diversity of life reduced by the end of the century due to the climate crisis.

The finding highlights new, potentially fertile areas in the warmer regions of Mars where conditions might be suitable for life to exist, though more study is needed.

Black Rhinos are critically endangered with just 8500 remaining in the wild but world-first reproductive technology has brought one more into the world.

Researchers have discovered a new kind of jellyfish that's a relation of our own tropical stingers - the box jellyfish dubbed the most venomous animal in the ocean.

When a meteorite smacked into the red planet recently, the Insight lander detected seismic waves beneath its surface.

A large hammerhead shark washed up on a US beach was pregnant with dozens of pups, researchers have found.

SpaceX's new rocket, the biggest and most powerful ever built, has blasted off on its first test flight, thundering into the South Texas sky before blowing apart minutes later.

The world's ice sheets are melting at a frighteningly rapid pace, and there's an obvious cause.

Scientists trawling through an immense volume of seawater believe they have found the evolutionary origin of the herpes virus.

The letter has been signed by 15 leading scientists around the world, from countries including South Africa, the United States, Canada, the UK, Kenya, and Australia.

Researchers have discovered a new way to gain important insights into the behavioural ecology of whales.

The majority of the plastic comes from a human industry, however between 10 and 20 per cent of the total volume can be traced back to a devastating natural disaster.

A group of sharks have been spotted metres from the shore at a beach in Queensland.

A new study has suggested that long COVID may be no worse than the flu - if you're up to date with your vaccinations.

Australian researchers say they have developed a faster and more accurate test for preeclampsia, a potentially fatal condition which can happen during pregnancy.

An Austrian researcher has discovered a fragment of the Bible unseen for about 1300 years.

A concerning find has been made in an environment believed to be one of the most pristine on earth.

Australia is currently experiencing the longest break between infection peaks since Omicron arrived in late 2021 and community-wide transmission took off.

The disease has recently gained notoriety for its devastating impact on the commercial poultry sector and as an emerging human public health threat.

The "new car smell" that car salespeople love to wax lyrical about may actually be harmful for your health, a new study has shown.

The discovery unlocks the ability to flick a switch in the cancer cells, allowing the body's immune system to fight alongside existing treatments.

Many doctors see promise in doxycycline, a cheap antibiotic that has been sold for more than 50 years.

This monster sinkhole opened up in an uptown Minneapolis intersection.

Researcher said there was not yet sufficient evidence to back up recent studies suggesting racoon dogs were the origin of the deadly virus.

It was only this year, three years after the start of the pandemic, that WHO got access to certain data that Chinese scientists had gathered in early 2020 at the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan.

In the hunt to understand the "little ice age" that once cooled the Earth, scientists have turned to an unlike source for clues: medieval latin manuscripts.

Monkeys with human-like hands fall are more likely to fall for a simple magic trick than primates without opposable thumbs.

NASA has named the four astronauts who will fly around the moon late next year, including the first woman and the first African American assigned to a lunar mission.

Just one month into the extreme season, Matthew photographed an "extra special" phenomenon. But it wasn't for the faint-hearted as the temperature plummeted.

There's evidence emerging about the health risks – not to mention costs and negative climate impact – of cooking with gas.