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A man accused of throwing an improvised explosive device into a large crowd of protesters should face "the full force of the law", Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said. The 31-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been charged over the attack at Monday's Invasion Day rally in Perth. Police on Tuesday revealed the

In the days since Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti’s shooting death at the hands of federal law enforcement, videos of the event have played a crucial role in shaping public thought about it. Though video evidence can often be ambiguous, and a full investigation hasn’t occurred, the early outcome is rising public doubt about statements made

In many ways, America has been here before. At the opening of the 20th century, a Nebraska lawyer named William Jennings Bryan drew crowds totaling millions as he traveled around the country, railing against East Coast elites. It was the tail end of the Gilded Age, a time when the country’s prosperity was booming but

Dark matter keeps everything in the whole universe tethered together, acting like a cosmic glue. Although it plays such a pivotal role, scientists haven’t even scratched the surface of this mystifying force. Unlike normal matter — from the atoms within us to entire planets in space — dark matter doesn’t emit or absorb light, making

In September 2024, astronomers noticed something peculiar. A star not too dissimilar to our sun suddenly lost its brightness, appearing 40 times dimmer than normal. There was no obvious explanation. “Stars like the sun don’t just stop shining for no reason,” Nadia Zakamska, professor of astrophysics at Johns Hopkins University, said in a statement. Adding

When wolves and cougars cross paths, it’s rarely a friendly encounter. But as these two apex predators increasingly share territory across the western United States, a new study suggests cougars may be finding clever ways to avoid conflict by changing what’s on their menu. Drawing on nearly a decade of GPS tracking and thousands of

Point Nemo has the distinction of being the most remote place on Earth. Located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, its extreme isolation makes it the perfect site for a spacecraft graveyard — and the final resting place of the International Space Station (ISS), which is due to be decommissioned in 2030 or 2031

Yellowstone is infamous, having made it onto the small and prestigious list of “supervolcanoes.” This means it is one of just a handful of volcanoes that have produced an eruption of magnitude 8 at least once in their lifetimes. To make the cut, the eruption must result in the deposit of over 240 cubic miles

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Comment Published: 27 January 2026 Lingshi Tan 1 , Ken Song 2 & Bai Lu 3,4   Nature Biotechnology (2026)Cite this article Subjects As pressure mounts globally on drug pricing and development cost continues to rise, clinicians and translational scientists in biotech, academia and biopharma companies are re-evaluating when, where and how to launch early