
Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s fourth season saw Alyson Hannigan’s Willow Rosenberg tap into new depths of her burgeoning magical abilities and begin to come into her own as a young queer woman. But looking back on the beloved series, Hannigan now thinks that her character should have become romantically involved…

Pfizer and BioNTech have just released interim results of their COVID-19 vaccine trial. Although it is not the only vaccine in the late stages of testing, the large size and careful design of the trial, not to mention the promising results, have caused understandable enthusiasm around the world. As we…

Kevin Rudd’s campaign to call a royal commission into media diversity in Australia broke records. Even still, there was a near-zero chance that it was going to happen. But now, it looks like the former prime minister will a very good consolation prize. On Wednesday, Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young successfully…

Over the past few years we have seen a plethora of incredibly impressive phone cameras. The vast majority of those have been of the Android persuasion. Huawei. Oppo. Google Pixel. All of these brands continue to produce truly spectacular, industry-leading photography. And yet I’ve found myself reaching for the iPhone…

The full contents of the first “murder hornet” nest discovered in the U.S. have been revealed, and they’re unsurprisingly terrifying. On Tuesday, Washington state officials announced they found over 500 Asian giant hornets in the nest, including dozens of not-yet-fertile queens that were primed to mate, wait out the winter,…

Genetic engineering has already cemented itself as an invaluable tool for studying gene functions in organisms. Our new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, now demonstrates how gene editing can be used to pinpoint genes involved in corals’ ability to withstand heat stress. A better…
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Updated 2PM AEDT: Microsoft says ‘we back‘. Microsoft’s Outlook, OneDrive and other Office365 products are having big problems this morning as users report being unable to access their products. On Wednesday morning Australia time, people began noticing they were receiving errors when they were trying to access their emails hosted…

Designing buildings so they can easily be taken apart and the materials reused provides a feasible and commercial pathway for minimising waste and greenhouse gas emissions. Our research shows one such Curtin University building, the Legacy Living Lab in Fremantle, reduces construction waste and cuts emissions to almost a tenth…

Like most major comic book conventions in North America, Emerald City Comic Con was cancelled this year in response to the still-ongoing covid-19 pandemic. Though the virus is still raging in the U.S., con producer ReedPop is confident that things will return to normal by next Northern Hemisphere winter.