Australia now faces a devastating bird flu outbreak in wildlife
The spread of H5N1 birdflu is worsening. At the time of writing, Australia has 53…
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Getting outside despite your 9-to-5 job can improve your mental health – here’s how to spend time in nature during and around working hours
The modern workday unfolds largely indoors. Long hours spent commuting, sitting in meetings and staring…
Seaweed surveys discover species never seen before and new to science
Natural England’s underwater surveys of maerl beds off the south coast of Cornwall have uncovered…
Sam Altman says we’re ‘in the singularity’ with AI. Here’s why he’s wrong
“We are now, like, in the singularity”. These are the words of Sam Altman, CEO…
What is Genocost? Understanding Congo’s new language of remembrance and justice
On August 2, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) commemorates Genocost Day, a national…
Sports venues are offering facial recognition to let people in. What are the risks?
Queues at sports events can be very long, even at large venues with many entrance…
Summer holiday savings start now with free buses for kids
starting today under 16s can travel on local buses for free this August to help…
How an OpenAI safety test became a real-world cyberattack on the Hugging Face platform
OpenAI’s AI models recently escaped their constraints during an internal cybersecurity evaluation and broke into…
How the Ceuta border crossing incident immediately played into the hands of Spain’s far right
It is estimated that more than 50,000 migrants crossed entered the small Spanish enclave of…
Foldable synthetic molecules could infiltrate and bust apart the toxic protein clumps causing Parkinson’s
Current therapies for Parkinson’s disease and related conditions primarily treat symptoms but don’t stop the…