Once extinct in central Australia, this little kangaroo-looking marsupial is now thriving in a remote desert safe haven. The number of brush-tailed bettongs and burrowing bettongs surveyed at Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary in central Australia has nearly doubled since last year.

Extinct mountain jewel plant returned to wild in secret location. (BBC) A plant picked for its beautiful flowers then wiped out in the UK mainland makes a return.

More than a dozen locations bear this racist term and relic of colonial oppression. It's time to change the place names. There is a small sign in Western Victoria — one of 15 locations around the country, from creeks and waterholes to bores and mountains — that is a racist slur in plain sight.

Regional property owners turning unusable land into money through solar energy leases. With upheavals in the agriculture industry making some farms unviable, a landowner in South Australia is encouraging others to consider repurposing their properties for renewable energy projects.

Good Samaritans joined by green sea turtle for unexpected outback road trip. After spotting a request for help on social media, Emily and Callum helped Squirt the turtle make the 600-kilometre (372.8 miles) journey from Port Hedland to Broome.

The world's oldest culture is embracing high-tech vertical farming. Vertical farms grow plants quickly, using less water and land than traditional farming. One newcomer to the industry hopes it can put native herbs into supermarkets.

"One deadly menu": The food mission to bring First Nations cuisine to all of Australia. At her local supermarket, Evelyn Billy looked around and saw food from all cultures — except hers. (Aboriginal Australian people use "Deadly" to mean excellent/amazing/really good.)

Kado is one of only three speakers of Ngalia. He designed an app to pass down his knowledge to the next generation. The remote town of Leonora, more than 800 kilometres from Perth, is an unlikely technology hub, but its only school has been chosen to launch a new app aimed at preserving language and culture.

Meet the echidnapus: Fossils discovered in museum drawer may point to Australian age of monotremes. The "echidnapus" is one of the newly described ancient monotremes from a fossil hotspot in NSW that could give us more clues about an era when egg-laying mammals diversified.

Palaeontologists have named three new monotreme species, including an "echidnapus", which shares platypus and echidna characteristics.

Palaeontology while using a power wheelchair. Eleanor Beidatsch recently graduated with first-class honours in geoscience at the University of New England (UNE). Eleanor has spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) type 1 and has never had use of her legs. Her arm movement is also limited. "I cannot move myself around at all," she said. "When I'm in the wheelchair I can move, thanks to the wonders of technology." The disease, which affects her respiration as well as her mobility, was generally considered fatal by doctors when Eleanor was born. "I'm more of a lab rat than a field mouse," she said. "Palaeontology is very physical, but only if you're out digging. [Information about fossils] essentially then gets put online, that is then accessible for people to do lab work, and you don't need to be able bodied [for that]."

Art world mourns death of superstar Aboriginal artist Destiny Deacon. Tributes are flowing from friends and the art world for a trailblazing contemporary Aboriginal Australian artist.

Deacon was born on 1 January 1957 in Maryborough, Queensland and is of the K'ua K'ua/Kuku of Far North Queensland (Kuku Yalanji) and Erub/Mer (Torres Strait Islander) peoples.

Cameras reveal wombat burrows can be safe havens after fire and waterholes after rain (The Conversation.) And here is a cartoon about it: A wombat burrow is the food court of nature – and so much more. It is like an Airbnb combined with an Aldi. (First Dog on the Moon).

More Than 1000 Fossils, Including Rare Dinosaurs, Given to Brazil's National Museum Following Fire. (Smithsonian Magazine.) The massive donation was made by Burkhard Pohl, a Swiss-German collector, as the museum works to replenish its collections after a devastating blaze in September 2018.

"We felt it was the right thing to do to help rebuild a comprehensive collection of Brazilian fossils,' Pohl tells the Art Newspaper's Gabriella Angeleti. "We hope that this initiative will inspire other collectors to follow suit and join this important effort. I strongly believe that a collection is a living organism that must constantly evolve—a collection locked away in a basement is a dead collection."

After Brain Injuries, Doctors and Families Should Take More Time With Life Support Decisions, Research Finds. (Smithsonian Magazine.) A small study suggests some severe traumatic brain injury patients can later recover a level of independence or return to their pre-injury lives.

"The team used the model to compare 160 similar patients for whom life support was either withdrawn or continued. Their analysis found that many patients who had life support withdrawn would have likely died anyway. But 42 percent of those who continued on life support and survived ended up regaining some independence up to 12 months after injury. The findings suggest a "cyclical, self-fulfilling prophecy" may be at play in trauma centers, according to a statement from Mass General Brigham. Doctors assume that patients with traumatic brain injuries will not recover or will fare poorly, which leads to the withdrawal of life support. This, in turn, results in patients' deaths, which prompts even more decisions to withdraw life support, according to the statement."

Man finds huge 30,000-year-old mammoth bones in his wine cellar. The Austrian Academy of Sciences described the remains of at least three Stone Age mammoths in Gobelsburg as "the most significant find ... in more than 100 years."

Scientists document remarkable sperm whale phonetic alphabet. A new analysis of years of vocalizations by sperm whales in the eastern Caribbean has found that their system of communication is more sophisticated than previously known.

Turtle travels nearly 2000km to nest on Queensland coast for first time. An endangered olive ridley turtle may have travelled close to 2000 kilometres to nest on Queensland's east coast in a find described by renowned researcher Col Limpus as quite a phenomenon.

Renee is only 24, but her fashion designs are about to hit the runway for the third time. Blending traditional Indigenous techniques with cutting-edge production methods, Wiradjuri designer Renee Henderson creates stunning designs inspired by Aboriginal art and culture.

Meet Patricia Piccinini. She's the mother of Skywhale and a much-loved artist. The artist shares why her work is driven by a fascination for the frontiers of science and its potential — and her fears of what we're doing to the world.

In a forest in Melbourne's east, Daisy is drawn to the smell of something barely bigger than a grain of rice. Daisy is thought to be the only dog in the world using her nose to save a critically endangered mushroom.

Little is known about the dingoes living in the Australian Capital Territory, but one researcher is trying to change that. Concerns have been raised over the current assumptions about the ACT's dingoes, and its hoped more understanding can help the animals coexist with humans and other species.

How Lizzie Borden Got Away With Murder. Class, nativism and gender stereotypes all played a role in Borden's acquittal for the 1892 killings of her father and stepmother. (Smithsonian magazine.)

A scratched wooden door found by chance at the top of a medieval turret has been revealed to be an "astonishing" graffiti-covered relic from the French revolutionary wars, including a carving that could be a fantasy of Napoleon Bonaparte being hanged.

Over 50 individual graffiti carvings were chiselled into the door in the 1790s by bored English soldiers stationed at Dover Castle in Kent, when Britain was at war with France in the wake of the French Revolution. They include a detailed carving of a sailing ship, an elaborate stylised cross and nine individual scenes of figures being hanged – one of whom is wearing a bicorn hat. The simple plank door was first discovered several years ago at the top of St John's tower, which for more than a century had been impossible to access without climbing a ladder to the base of a spiral staircase. At the time, however, it was covered in thick layers of paint that obscured many of its markings.

30,000 rare oysters are being reintroduced to Firth of Forth. (The Firth of Forth is in Scotland, it is a body of water just North of Edinburgh.)

At 14, Ned stumbled upon a perfect jungle. He didn't know he would spend the next two years fighting to save it. When a teenager uncovered a critical refuge for endangered species, it marked the start of a journey that eventually saw the parcel of land named after him.

Internet use linked to higher wellbeing, global study suggests.

A Northland island (in Aotearoa/New Zealand) has a very unusual (but good) problem...too many kiwi. Residents on Moturoa, in Ipipiri, have been forced to relocate the reclusive birds after their population swelled into the hundreds. (This was the result of a local program to control feral predators like cats and foxes - in most parts of New Zealand, kiwi are under threat.)

Astronomers detect Milky Way black hole with mass 33 times that of the Sun. Astronomers have discovered the second-largest black hole known to be in the Milky Way, and it's located just 2000 light-years from Earth.

This Is What Being in Your Twenties Was Like in 18th-Century London. A newly restored collection of letters describes a 27-year-old's office job, social life and financial concerns beginning in 1719.