AI transforming our understanding of the universe
Science in the modern era is increasingly reliant on enormous datasets and automated analysis. In astronomy, the Vera…
GAMING: Are game developers using AI? Players want to know
Image credit: Adobe Stock As with all creative industries, generative artificial intelligence (AI) has been infiltrating video games.…
Australian child sexual abuse material reports rose 41% – and Big tech still isn’t doing enough to stop it
In the 2024–25 financial year alone, the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation received nearly 83,000 reports of…
Five Ways Quantum Technology Could Shape Everyday Life
From The Conversation By Salil Gunashekar, Senior Research Leader and Deputy Director, Science and Emerging Technology; Adam Urwick,…
With renewables over 50%, is the energy transition… succeeding?
Ten years ago, if a heatwave as intense as last week’s record-breaker had hit the east coast, Australia’s power supply…
How Mark Carney left Donald Trump in the dust in Davos
The meeting and venue were the same, but the style and tone of the two most anticipated keynote…
During ‘White Australia,’ Japanese migrants gained from baseball
In 1919, Japanese migrants in Sydney gifted a silver cup to the New South Wales Baseball Association. The…
China and the US race to the Moon – but first, Musk vs. Bezos
The United States and China are locked in a contest to be the first country to send humans…
Atorvastatin recall may affect hundreds of thousands of patients – and reflects FDA’s troubles inspecting medicines manufactured overseas
If you take cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins, you may have noticed a flurry of news coverage since late…
New Study Shatters Long-Standing Myths About Primate Origins
The first primates were about the size of a mouse lemur: tiny. Credit: Jason Gilchrist Primates originated in…
Webb Telescope Spots Possible Signs of Atmosphere on “Goldilocks” Exoplanet
This artist’s concept portrays the seven rocky exoplanets within the TRAPPIST-1 system, located 40 light-years from Earth. Credit:…
Scientists Discover Mars Has an Earth-Like Core
The findings will help guide scientists towards a better understanding of Mars’ evolution as a planet. Credit: JPL-Caltech…