Get Real, Congress: Censoring Search Results or Recommendations Is Still Censorship – Activist Post
By Jason Kelley For the past two years, Congress has been trying to revise the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA)…
A search for links between two of the universe’s most spectacular phenomena has come up empty – for now
Every so often, astronomers glimpse an intense flash of radio waves from space – a flash that lasts only instants…
What causes lithium-ion battery fires? Why are they so intense? And how should they be fought? An expert explains
Picture this: you’re cruising down the Great Ocean Road in your brand new electric vehicle (EV), the ocean to your…
Will AI kill our creativity? It could – if we don’t start to value and protect the traits that make us human
There’s no doubt generative AI’s ability to rapidly produce new texts, images and audio is shaking up creative jobs. In…
Nobody knows how consciousness works – but top researchers are fighting over which theories are really science
Science is hard. The science of consciousness is particularly hard, beset with philosophical difficulties and a scarcity of experimental data.…
New study shows we can create value from food waste by turning it into a highly desirable material – nanocellulose
Food waste is a global problem with approximately 1.3 billion tonnes of food wasted each year throughout the food lifecycle…
From stock markets to brain scans, new research harmonises hundreds of scientific methods to understand complex systems
Complexity is all around us, from the daily fluctuations of financial markets to the intricate web of neurons in our…
7 years, billions of kilometres, a handful of dust: NASA just brought back the largest-ever asteroid sample
After a journey of billions of kilometres, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has culminated in a small black capsule blazing through the…
A national digital ID scheme is being proposed. An expert weighs the pros and (many more) cons
In 2018-19, identity crime directly and indirectly cost Australia an estimated A$3.1 billion. To address such costs, the federal government is…
‘Smart’ Meter Update: Late Lessons from Early Warnings, Still – Activist Post
By Patricia Burke of Safe Tech International. Images courtesy Floris Freshman “Rather than the road to hell being paved with good intentions, I suggest…
30 years of the web down under: how Australians made the early internet their own
The internet is growing old. While the roots of the internet date back to the 1960s, the popular internet –…
Curious Kids: what came first, the chicken or the egg?
What came first, the chicken or the egg? — Grace, age 12, Melbourne Hi Grace! Thanks for this great question.…
Why do I get so much spam and unwanted email in my inbox? And how can I get rid of it?
Spam might not have brought an end to the internet or email, as some dire predictions in the early 2000s…