New staple-size frog is one of the tiniest ever discovered

The new frogs are part of an informal group called microfrogs, which belong to the family Cophylinae. Their discovery brings the total number of Malagasy microfrogs to 108; on average, 10 new species are identified and described per year in the country.

Physicists see new difference between matter and antimatter

An experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, has seen a new difference in the way matter and antimatter behave — in decays of particles called D mesons.

Milky Way's mass mostly made up of dark matter

Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite, a team of international scientists determined the Milky Way weighs in at about 1.5 trillion solar masses.

New dinosaur identified: Galleonosaurus dorisae

Fossilised jawbones found in rocks along Victoria's Gippsland coast have been identified as belonging to a new species of plant-eating dinosaur the size of a wallaby that would have roamed the land between Australia and Antarctica.