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If social media is your news source, verify before spreading. • One fifth of people act on what they see or hear on social media • A quarter trust the information they find on social

Fairy-wrens calculate their benefits when coming to aid others threatened by predators. A study led by Monash University researchers, published today in Current Biology, reveals when and why purple-crowned fairy-wrens will defend others from predators.

Cambridge Quantum algorithm solves optimisation problems significantly faster, outperforming existing quantum methods. Scientists at Cambridge Quantum (CQ) (www.cambridgequantum.com ) have developed a new algorithm using near-term quantum computers to solve combinatorial optimisation problems that are

While policing requires making fast judgments of situations, officers undertake three ‘tests’ to assess a situation or person’s behaviour before taking action. Research at Australia’s Monash University illuminates police officer decision-making and how decisions to

Women are greatly under-represented in physics journals. The ‘good’ news is that, when looking at papers from the last few years, about 25 per cent of astronomy and astrophysics authors are women, and their numbers

Dr Colm Talbot of Caltech wins the Charlene Heisler* Prize. Albert Einstein predicted that gravitational waves should permanently change spacetime – effectively imprinting a “memory”. Former Monash University astronomer Dr Colm Talbot spends much of

Cold universes, fast radio bursts and the Egyptian god of chaos. Research into extra-terrestrial life, powerful energy busts lasting milliseconds and a star system dubbed the most extreme object in the Universe have led to