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This undated handout photo received from the University of Melbourne on October 8, 2025 shows UK-born chemist Richard Robson posing at the university in Melbourne. Japan's Susumu Kitagawa, UK-born Richard Robson and American-Jordanian Omar Yaghi on October 8 won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing metalâorganic frameworks (MOFs) that can be used to capture carbon dioxide and harvest water from desert air, among other things. (Photo by Handout / University of Melbourne / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

‘Hermione’s handbag’ Nobel prize

‘A wonderful day for Australian science’ was decades in the making, as an international research effort with astonishing results earns this Melb Uni professor the coveted Nobel prize

Science and Technology

Dr Sonu Yadav with Tiwi Islands students at Xavier Catholic College. Picture: supplied

Remote study to DNA defenders

Two molecular scientists have taken hi-tech DNA laboratory techniques to some of Australia’s most remote classrooms to help create the next generation of biosecurity defenders – here’s why

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World record for hitched horses

Wagon drivers in regional Australia set a new world record in an unusual category at a beloved annual farming festival, which now welcomes more than 10,000 visitors from around the country

Render of a Dodo bird. Dodo birds could come back from the dead in as little as 5 years. Picture: Colossal Biosciences

Bid to de-extinct dodo bird

We love the springtime and this being the season of renewal, discover how and when the extinct dodo bird may be brought back from the dead

Society and Culture

Mysterious stone structures 2,000ft down off Cuba have baffled scientists for two decades. Picture: YouTube/Ancient Architects

Ancient city or natural formation?

Could this mysterious grouping of stone structures off the coast of Cuba be a submerged lost city, hidden from view for thousands of years? Or could there be a much more scientific explanation?

Science and Technology

Gen AI can boost business productivity - Business chatting a smart AI using an artificial intelligence chatbot developed with AI robot. automatically respond online messages intelligent service to help customers.

AI buddy to help with school work

Thousands of Aussie students will soon have their very own generative AI chatbot to help them at school. Find out who will have access and what the platform will enable them to do

The ancient find has stunned historians. Picture: Supplied

New clues at Terracotta Army site

A 15-tonne casket has been discovered at the final resting place of China’s first emperor, but it doesn’t belong to the king. So whose body is inside? And why are there signs of mercury at the site?

Society and Culture

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Can we ‘disconnect’ Gen cyber?

Banning social media will be no easy task for kids born into a world where Wi-Fi and connectivity are just as important as electricity and running water, says cartoonist Mark Knight

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Photo: Elsie Chittleborough (12), Prime Minister's Spelling Bee champion. SA's Elsie Chittleborough of Torrensville Primary School is the state's first ever national champion title in the PM's Spelling Bee after claiming the Orange level (Years 5-6) of Kids News' national spelling challenge, following a record-breaking 82,000 student registrations. Kids News and the Bee are key pillars in the News in the Community program led by Penny Fowler. Picture: Tim Joy. 16th September 2025

Bee spelling success pretty sweet

Back-to-back victories and a breakthrough win for South Australia have marked the fifth anniversary of Australia’s premier student spelling competition. FULL HONOUR ROLL

11 September 2025. 7-month-old Lion cubs Kaari, Mzuri and Nguvu have debuted with the Pride Lands Patrol Tour at Taronga Western Plains Zoo, Dubbo. TWPZ Lion cub Mzuri and the pride check out the Pride Lands Patrol tour truck. Credit Jen Hoar

Lion cubs on patrol as juveniles rule

Ready to go on a lion-watching safari? Visitors to one Australian zoo can enjoy the antics of its youngest (and cutest) residents, like these playful members of the lion pride WATCH THE VIDEO

Eleanor and Josh Thorburn on their first day of school. Picture: Supplied

Meet the kids with dementia

Dementia Action Week Part 2 – Siblings Eleanor and Josh Thorburn were diagnosed with a rare form of childhood dementia when they were just five and four. This is their story of bravery

Stadium Australia Hall of Fame inductees at the gala dinner on the 25th year anniversary of the Sydney Olympics at Accor Stadium on September 15, 2025. L-R - Mark Schwarzer (Football), Brad Fittler (Rugby League), Cathy Freeman (Olympian), Ian Thorpe (Olympian), John Aloisi (Football), Louise Savage (Paralympian), Andrew Johns (Rugby League), Tim Sullivan (Paralympian). Photo by Phil Hillyard

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Hall of Fame honours nation’s best

As we continue our coverage of the Sydney Olympics’ 25th anniversary, let’s take a look at which 10 athletes have just been inducted into Accor Stadium’s inaugural Hall of Fame

Three earthquakes in the space of nine hours have been felt across regional NSW. Picture: Geoscience Australia

Aussies shaken by three quakes

One Australian state has been hit by three separate earthquakes occurring hundreds of kilometres apart within a nine hour period. Were you in one of the towns that felt the tremors?

PM's Spelling Bee: How to help yourself by helping your child. A new Monash University study shows that spelling activities like crosswords may help more than socialising in avoiding dementia. Picture: iStock

Support loved ones with dementia

This Dementia Action Week (15-21 Sept), we’re looking at ways to support our older loved ones living with the condition as well as what can be done to avoid it – but what exactly is dementia?

(FILES) Cathy Freeman of Australia speeds over the track in the women's 400m final 25 September, 2000 at the Sydney Olympic Games. Freeman took the Olympic gold, the silver medal went to Lorraine Graham of Jamaica and the bronze to Katharine Merry of Britain. AFP PHOTO/Eric FEFERBERG. In a moment that captured the spirit of reconciliation between Australia's Aborigines and the descendants of European migrants, Aboriginal sprint legend Cathy Freeman, wearing a custom-made silver-white bodysuit, lit the Olympic flame at the 2000 Sydney Games. Ten days later she became the first Australian Aboriginal to win an individual gold medal when she won the 400m final, this time in a high-tech hooded racing suit. (Photo by Eric Feferberg / AFP)

Cathy Freeman’s famous 49 secs

It’s been 25 years since Australians held their collective breath and – wherever they were in the world that day – watched Cathy Freeman make history by winning gold at the Sydney Olympics

First Nations News

Authors Tyran Uddin (left) and Kayden Wellington with their book. Picture: Tom McGann

Aussie teens to published authors

These two high school students turned a school project into a published book, thanks to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. Find out how they did it and what the future now holds

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The NSW Police are celebrating 200 years of the Mounted Police. These are supplied historical photos to mark the occasion. Pictured is 1930 - ANZAC Day March, Sydney

Australian mounted police turn 200

From catching colonial criminals to defusing modern protests, the nation’s pioneering horse-mounted police have galloped through history to the present day to celebrate a very special milestone

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TOPSHOT - This screengrab from handout surveillance camera footage taken and released by New South Wales Rural Fire Service (NSW RFS) on September 10, 2025 shows a tornado over the countryside near Young in New South Wales. An Australian fire surveillance camera captured dramatic video images September 10 of a tornado towering over a thunderstorm-struck stretch of countryside. (Photo by Handout / NSW Rural Fire Service (NSW RFS) / AFP) / -----EDITORS NOTE --- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Rare tornadoes strike Australia

Two tornadoes tore through country NSW as severe storms and record rain caused havoc in Sydney. But just how common are tornadoes here in Australia and what causes them to form?

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Pies fans board party bus to finals

Collingwood’s victory over Adelaide had cartoonist Mark Knight imagining the wild celebrations on the supporters’ long journey home as last week’s upset keeps Magpie fans’ finals hopes alive

Portraits of the late Blessed Carlo Acutis, an adolescent who spends his life spreading his faith online and earns the moniker ''God's Influencer,'' and the late Italian Pier Giorgio Frassati, a mountaineering enthusiast known for his social and spiritual commitment who dies in 1925, are displayed on the Saint Peter's Basilica during a Jubilee audience at the Saint Peter's Square in The Vatican on September 6, 2025. Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati are raised to sainthood by Pope Leo XIV in a solemn ceremony in St Peter's Square at the Vatican on September 7, 2025. (Photo by Massimo Valicchia/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Gen Alpha gets its first teen saint

Teenager Carlos Acutis has become the first ever millennial saint following his canonisation at St Peter’s Square by Pope Leo XIV. Find out how the self-taught coder received the holy honour