Students need more than AI skills — they need accountable AI literacy
As students return to Canadian colleges and universities soon, many will enter classrooms where generative…
Australia is eyeing a world-first ‘fair and reasonable’ test for data collection and privacy
On Monday, the Australian government released draft legislation for the next big overhaul of the…
Nasa’s new telescope is named after astronomer Nancy Grace Roman – but who was she?
Nasa has named its latest flagship space telescope after the American scientist Nancy Grace Roman.…
Worms navigate narrow paths faster than wide ones – these findings could inform robot design
You might naturally expect a wide, open path to be faster and easier to navigate…
What would you see if you had one eye on the back of your head and the other in the front?
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question…
3D scans of Tasmanian tiger’s skull reveal it had crocodile-style snapping jaws
Some 90 years after the death of the last documented thylacine – better known as…
AI is eating website traffic, websites are blocking AI – and reliable information is getting harder to find
For 30 years, the world wide web has run on a surprisingly profound social contract:…
I’m part of the team writing the next bible of psychiatry – for the first time, the DSM will use biology to understand mental disorders
The “bible” of clinical psychiatry – the DSM, short for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual…
How AI-powered policing is endangering the public’s trust in police
Since the release of ChatGPT in 2022, artificial intelligence (AI) has dominated the cultural landscape.…
how ancient Greeks and Romans tried to treat sick birds
Since the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu was first confirmed in Australian wild birds in…