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The United States has offered to invest in Australian critical minerals companies as part of a broader effort to secure alternative supply chains and reduce its reliance on China. With this effort, Washington is taking a next step in its urgency to expand access to lithium, cobalt, rare earths, and…

Should you cancel your weekend plans?

NASA's Perseverance rover has found minerals that could have powered life on Mars — or simply shaped the Red Planet's environment in fascinating ways.

"What about all those stupid little moustaches?"

Language enables us to connect with each other and coordinate to achieve incredible feats. Our ability to communicate abstract concepts is often seen as a defining feature of our species, and one that separates us from the rest of life on Earth.

From the later summer glow of Marseille to polar nights in Tromsø, our tipsters choose their favourite cities

It seems pretty clear-cut.

From The Thing to The Last of Us, dozens of sci-fi classics have warned us about this moment — but did we listen?

Astronomers using JWST have captured the sharpest infrared view yet of the supermassive black hole jet in M87, offering new insights into its structure and physics.

China's Tianwen 2 spacecraft took a picture of itself, as well as the Earth, while en route to a mysterious asteroid that may tell us more about the moon's history.

ESA is making use of spacecraft originally dedicated to its Mars and Jupiter missions to track comet 3I/ATLAS as it continues its journey through our solar system