2015年10月22日 · Beyond Earth, the heaviest, most dense substance in the known universe would have to be the insides of a neutron star says Associate Professor Andrew Melatos from the University of Melbourne’s School of Physics.

2024年3月12日 · The largest galaxies in our modern Universe all carry a history of mergers, including our own Milky Way which has grown to its current size through successive mergers with smaller galaxies. These observations of Gz9p3 show that galaxies were able to accumulate mass quickly in the early Universe through mergers, with star formation efficiencies ...

2025年1月16日 · Mis- and disinformation have once again been named the top global risk of the immediate term in the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Risks Report 2025. This comes just days after Meta announced it's ending its third-party fact checking functions to address disinformation on its social media ...

The search for dark matter may need a detector larger than we can build on Earth, but it could be that a neutron star can do the job

Around 95 per cent of the universe is still a mystery with unknown exotic particles and new forces awaiting discovery As National Science Week celebrates scientific discovery in Australia, we ask what’s likely to be the ‘next big thing’ in some of the most exciting fields of science research ...

2016年2月12日 · It took a collision of two of the biggest phenomena in the universe, black holes, to create a gravitational wave strong enough to be detected by our instruments. But Professor Melatos says that as our detection technology improves we will be able to pick up weaker gravitational waves and so make technological applications possible.

Once just a speck of light, now revealed as the biggest known galaxy in the early Universe Detailed pictures of one of the first galaxies show growth in the early Universe was much faster than first thought

2024年11月1日 · The best thing we can do to stop Cup Day weather from becoming even more erratic is to take action to limit climate change as much as possible. And just like the day itself, this action will look different for different people.

2022年8月12日 · Back to the practices themselves. One of the biggest challenges is that mindfulness isn’t clearly defined. Jon Kabat-Zinn (the man largely responsible for popularising mindfulness in the Western world) has described mindfulness as “the awareness that arises through paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgementally”.

2017年2月16日 · The Universe Within: White Night We can then take the captions beneath all these images and run an algorithm, called a ‘sentiment analysis’, to try to determine if each caption is expressing something positive, negative or neutral.