Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 10 September 2025

Climate 200 founder beats out at least six other bidders for meeting with opposition leader in charity auction for Parliament’s Midwinter Ball * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Climate 200 founder Simon Holmes à Court has paid $15,000 to secure a mystery flight with Sussan Ley – and put a climate scientist and a young climate organiser on the plane – winning a charity auction at Parliament’s Midwinter Ball. The flight, and lunch with the opposition leader at a country pub, was offered in the auction organised by the Canberra press gallery for the annual event. Continue reading...

This report investigates the corporate machinery sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project of displacement and replacement of the Palestinians in the occupied territory. While political leaders and...

Independent statistical reconstructions of the global mean surface temperature from either ocean or land data show that existing estimates of early-twentieth-century ocean surface temperatures are too...

Aiming for declining global temperatures can limit long-term climate risks compared with a mere stabilization of global warming, including sea-level rise and cryosphere changes.

Dozens of ‘small modular reactor’ designs are being promoted, but precious few will reach construction stage and likelihood of SMRs being built in large numbers is negligible.

Israel calls on António Guterres to resign after his speech and says it has denied a visa to a UN official