Flame retardant chemicals can cause serious health risks – and they only slow fire by a few seconds
House fires are many people’s worst nightmare. But chemicals created decades ago to protect people’s…
Grok is Elon Musk’s new sassy, foul-mouthed AI. But who exactly is it made for?
On November 4, X owner Elon Musk unveiled his new AI chatbot Grok: a sarcastic…
Even experts struggle to tell which social media posts are evidence-based. So, what do we do?
The debate on how to combat social media misinformation is as relevant as ever. In…
NASA’s first successful recovery of asteroid samples may reveal information about the origins of the universe
The OSIRIS-REx mission is NASA’s first mission to collect samples from an asteroid — in…
Did this chemical reaction create the building blocks of life on Earth?
How did life begin? How did chemical reactions on the early Earth create complex, self-replicating…
The world is finally starting to regulate artificial intelligence – what to expect from US, EU and China’s new laws
Most mainstream applications of artificial intelligence (AI) make use of its ability to crunch large…
Insulin injections could one day be replaced with rock music − new research in mice
More than 37 million people in the U.S. have diabetes. According to the American Diabetes…
Why Google and Meta owe news publishers much more than you think – and billions more than they’d like to admit
In a time of war and populism, the world needs quality information and credible news…
Optus has revealed the cause of the major outage. Could it happen again?
Around 4.05am on Wednesday November 8 2023, Optus suffered a nationwide network outage lasting well…
Can you spot the AI impostors? We found AI faces can look more real than actual humans
Does ChatGPT ever give you the eerie sense you’re interacting with another human being? Artificial…