Today, almost a quarter of Australians are digitally excluded. This means they miss out on the social, educational and economic benefits online connectivity provides. In the face of this ongoing “digital divide”,…
Category: Science + Technology
Do you have 7,513 unread emails in your inbox? Research suggests that’s unwise
How do you manage your emails? Are you an “inbox zero” kind of person, or do you just leave thousands of them unread? Our new study, published today in the journal Information…
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 stars in the universe face. After their nuclear fuel is spent, 98 per cent of stars —…
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. In particular, the number of humans travelling into space with the help of commercial companies, such as…
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 in Queensland led to the deaths of 11 miners. This tragedy was the catalyst for a major…
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 have time to read that journal article? AI-powered tools such as TLDRthis will summarise it for you….
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 with long-term disabilities such as amputations. Africa, Asia and Latin America are the regions most heavily affected….
Does TikTok pose a security threat to Canadians?
Concerns about the threats TikTok poses to privacy and liberty were raised again, as a bill to divest TikTok of its Chinese ownership or ban it gathered steam in the United States…
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 since September 2023. This was reported the day after the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass…
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 in people’s brains that would allow them to control a computer or phone by thought alone. This…