Researchers at the University of Manchester have used artificial intelligence to uncover a complex picture behind England's long-running productivity puzzle, challenging the idea that the country's economic performance can be explained by a simple North-South divide.

Going from serving the nation to serving a prison sentence As Australia faces renewed strategic tension and the heightened prospect of conflict abroad, new Flinders University research warns that many veterans and their families—the very people relied upon to protect the nation—are being failed...

Fifty years of measuring the world's cleanest air Australia marks 50 years of monitoring the world's cleanest air in remote northwest Tasmania at Kennaook / Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station, supporting global efforts to track human-driven changes to the atmosphere.

Rethinking Europe's nature reserves Natura 2000 is regarded as a milestone in nature conservation: this network of around 27,000 protected areas across the EU is designed to preserve wild plant and animal species and their habitats.

NASA's Artemis II mission launched from the Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday.Joe Skipper/Reuters NASA is sending four astronauts to the moon for the first time in more than half a century.The astronauts will be doing a 10-day lunar flyby aboard the Orion spacecraft.

Mercury scout mission concept with solar sail propulsion The planet Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, and also the most difficult for spacecraft to visit and explore. This is because as spacecraft get closer to Mercury, the sun's enormous gravity pulls in the spacecraft, greatly increasing...