An amateur* prospector’s* persistence has paid off to the tune of up to $200,000, after he pulled a massive gold nugget out ...

While adult manta rays roam freely, young manta rays stay much closer to home until they have “grown up”, new research shows.

Girl power was on full display at Parliament House as the nation’s top spellers wrote themselves into the history books of the sixth Prime Minister’s Spelling Bee. Charlotte Edwards, 13, Aarika Harsha ...

The Australian Republic Movement has unveiled its first Youth Charter* for a Republic, developed over two years by young ...

As a news-based classroom literacy resource for Australian teachers and students, Kids News has a real responsibility to help Australia’s youngest citizens become e-Smart Agents. The nation’s children ...

How is it that crocodiles have survived long after the dinosaurs perished? Researchers believe they may know how the apex predators* survived a mass extinction event 66 million years ago that wiped ...

Famously known as the City of Light*, the French capital has instead had a dark week in its storied history, in which even ...

The report found there is no set age when children will be ready to have phones – readiness also depends on their maturity ...

“We found that large dogs show a faster-moving DNA methylation ageing signature in blood, and that this acceleration is especially strong in parts of the genome* that normally helps keep ‘jumping ...

Let’s talk about the dark art of economics*. One of the darkest aspects of this wizardry is how the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) controls inflation* through monetary policy*, a blunt instrument ...

A camera can show the inside of a home, a device with a microphone can pick up sound, and a compromised router can expose ...