Life / Culture

Last year, Australians lost $2.74 billion to scams, with a 150% increase in losses to job scams, in particular. Here’s what you need to know about these insidious tactics. …

A review of the November 2023 Optus outage has sparked an overhaul for the Triple Zero system and more transparency for telcos. …

A huge investment in building an unproven quantum computer may help local science and industry, but the results are far from a sure thing. …

Finding and retrieving the bones of this extinct kangaroo relative – a ‘holy grail’ fossil – took hours of squeezing through narrow passages. …

By detailing the landscape at the time of first humans’ migration into Australia, we can better understand how people travelled and where they settled. …

The Avars dominated southeastern central Europe for hundreds of years, leaving one of the richest archaeological heritages in Europe. Now scientists are using DNA to reveal details of their societies. …

99.96% of bee species do not die after stinging. So why does everyone think they do? …

Using Australian laws to force a foreign-owned platform to take down content globally sets a risky precedent – should we allow all countries to impose their laws on the internet? …

Secure, anxious, avoidant, fearful: research shows people’s feelings about being single may depend on their attachment style …

When astronomers focused on the galaxy NGC 4383, they didn’t expect the data to be so spectacular. This is the first detailed map of gas flowing from this galaxy as stars burst within. …