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At Flinders University, scientists have cracked a cleaner and greener way to extract gold--not just from ore, but also from our mounting piles of e-waste. By using a compound normally found in pool disinfectants and a novel polymer that can be reused ...

Researchers have achieved a major breakthrough by generating quantum spin currents in graphene--without relying on bulky magnetic fields. By pairing graphene with a magnetic material, they unlocked a powerful quantum effect that allows electrons to . ...

Imagine detecting a single trillionth of a gram of a molecule--like an amino acid--using just electricity and a chip smaller than your fingernail. That's the power of a new quantum-enabled biosensor developed at EPFL. Ditching bulky lasers, it taps . ...

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking technique called RAVEN that can capture the full complexity of an ultra-intense laser pulse in a single shot--something previously thought nearly impossible. These pulses, capable of accelerating particles . ...

Cats overwhelmingly choose to sleep on their left side, a habit researchers say could be tied to survival. This sleep position activates the brain's right hemisphere upon waking, perfect for detecting danger and reacting swiftly. Left-side snoozing . ...

Swap steaks for spinach and you might watch the scale plummet. In a 16-week crossover study, overweight adults who ditched animal products for a low-fat vegan menu saw their bodies become less acidic and dropped an average of 13 pounds--while the ...

South Australia's tiny pygmy bluetongue skink is baking in a warming, drying homeland, so Flinders University scientists have tried a bold fix--move it. Three separate populations were shifted from the parched north to cooler, greener sites farther . ...

Urban wildlife is evolving right under our noses -- and scientists have the skulls to prove it. By examining over a century's worth of chipmunk and vole specimens from Chicago, researchers discovered subtle yet significant evolutionary changes in ...

New research reveals why early human attempts to leave Africa repeatedly failed--until one group succeeded spectacularly around 50,000 years ago. Scientists discovered that before this successful migration, humans began using a much broader range of ...

Poachers are using a sneaky loophole to bypass the international ivory trade ban--by passing off illegal elephant ivory as legal mammoth ivory. Since the two types look deceptively similar, law enforcement struggles to tell them apart, especially ...