Floating crystals slow stellar aging — for some stars, this can delay death by billions of years
Imagine the embers of a campfire, slowly dimming over time. That is the fate most…
Space tourists and crew suffer high radiation risks – regulation is needed to protect them
In a decade or two, journeys into space could become as normal as transatlantic flights.…
How do airplanes fly? An aerospace engineer explains the physics of flight
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4 essential reads about the threat of high-tech deception in politics
It’s official. Joe Biden and Donald Trump have secured the necessary delegates to be their…
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…