Science

China fires up powerful particle accelerator to unlock secrets of atoms

China has brought online a record-breaking particle accelerator that can produce the world’s most intense beams of charged atoms. It gives scientists a new tool to create previously unknown atomic nuclei and advance research on cancer…

Up to 18% of Amur tigers die from natural causes — expert

Sergey Aramilev, director of the Amur Tiger center, says there are currently about 750 Amur tigers in Russia

30-year-old fossil in Japanese museum rock may be unknown sea reptile

Bullets in wool bales in Hawke's Bay 'deeply shocking'

The discovery of live ammunition at a wool processing plant is prompting an urgent safety warning to the wool industry.

Record $60k fine for man behind 'brazen' dump site that will cost $1m to clean

The owner of one of Victoria's worst illegal dump sites has been handed a record fine of $60,000 and ordered to pay an expected $1 million to clean up the polluted property in Melbourne's outer north-east.

Wildfires ravage parts of southern France, Italy and Spain

ROME, Italy — Wildfires raged Wednesday in Sicily, southwestern France and central Spain, sparking thousands of evacuations and claiming the life of an Italian firefighter. Temperatures topped 40°C and gusts of hot wind fanned the flames…

Trump to steer billions from universities to AI and individual scientists to counter China

US President Donald Trump’s administration will redirect billions of dollars in federal research funding away from universities to individual scientists and AI-focused projects, arguing the overhaul is needed to help the US compete with…

‘Scorching, dry summers’: Heat rather than lack of rain is now to blame for Europe’s droughts

“This isn’t just a crisis for farmers, it’s a crisis that trickles down to Europe’s most vulnerable,” says researcher Merel Laauwen.

Weight loss drugs linked to increase risk of hair loss

Weight loss drugs such as Mounjaro, Ozempic and Wegovy are linked to an increased risk of hair loss, according to researchers.

Spain and France continue to battle wildfires as intense heat grips Southern Europe

Wildfires have burned more land in Europe this year than the annual average in the past two decades, as the continent has ​endured three virtually back-to-back heat waves.

Gaia Sausage collision may have flipped the Milky Way by 90° 10 billion years ago

A dramatic collision between the Milky Way and a dwarf galaxy around 10 billion years ago may have completely changed the orientation of our galaxy, according to astronomers. Researchers from Durham University say the Milky Way was likely…

Labor’s ‘practical policy’ push, Epstein scout dies, why your phone will blare a loud siren on Monday

Want to get this in your inbox every weekday? Sign up for the Morning Mail here , and finish your day with our Afternoon Update newsletter Morning everyone. Anthony Albanese will put “practical policies” such as expanding paid work…