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From Twitch and Tom Holland, rizz, a Gen Z slang, has journeyed to the linguistic experts at Oxford University Press

Do you have "rizz"? It's become Oxford's 2023 word of the year.

The queen of Countdown’s dictionary corner on the power of positive language and finding joy in ‘mubble fubbles’

A new research published by Oxford University Press in Genome Biology and Evolution suggests that rapid evolution in bats may explain the animals' unique capacity to host and survive infections as well as avoid cancer. Read further on Dynamite News:

Geoffrey Swenson’s book Contending Orders tackles Afghanistan and Timor-Leste.

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In an implicit admission that the Commonwealth budget may not measure what really matters, Treasurer Jim Chalmers is about to release what he is calling “Measuring What Matters” – Australia’s first national wellbeing framework.

The annulated sea snake, a species of venomous snake found in ocean waters around Australia and Asia, appears to have evolved to see an extended palette of colours after its ancestors lost that ability in response to changing environments, according to a new paper published in Genome Biology and Evolution…

Enceladus is the tiny moon of Saturn that seems to have it all. Its icy surface is intricately carved by ongoing geological processes. Its icy shell overlies an internal, liquid ocean. There, chemically charged warm water seeps out of the rocky core onto the ocean floor – potentially providing nourishment…