How safe are Australia’s mines? New analysis shows reform has been stalled for a decade
On Sunday August 7 1994, an explosion at the Moura No 2 underground coal mine…
Something felt ‘off’ – how AI messed with our human research, and what we learned
All levels of research are being changed by the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). Don’t…
we thought we’d created a winning new antivenom but then it flopped. Why that turned out to be a good thing
Snakebites kill over 100,000 people each year, and hundreds of thousands of survivors are left…
Does TikTok pose a security threat to Canadians?
Concerns about the threats TikTok poses to privacy and liberty were raised again, as a…
Attempts to ban TikTok reveal the hypocrisy of politicians already struggling to relate to voters
TikTok has been under review due to national security concerns by the Canadian federal government…
Elephant calves have been found buried – what does that mean?
The myth of elephant graveyards has pervaded popular culture, and recent observations of buried Asian…
Elon Musk’s brain implant company offers an intriguing glimpse of an internet connecting human minds
Elon Musk’s company called Neuralink, launched in 2016, aims to implant a piece of technology…
Why Biden is investing in influencers to help with this year’s election
Move over Taylor Swift. You’re not the only one with crowds of worshipping fans who…
The mystery of consciousness shows there may be a limit to what science alone can achieve
The progress of science in the last 400 years is mind-blowing. Who would have thought…
Undersea cables for Africa’s internet retrace history and leave digital gaps as they connect continents
Large parts of west and central Africa, as well as some countries in the south…