Meta can’t beat its rivals on raw AI capability. With its new Muse agent, it doesn’t need to
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When groundwater reservoirs are replenished, the ground above rises. But the uplift is patchy because earthquake faults act like underground dams, channelling water.
The tool can help communities better understand their local conditions and prepare for bushfires early.
Ribose molecules came to Earth in meteorites and eventually became key parts of RNA. But how they survived in between has been a mystery.
AI is helping communities own and build vital tools for their minority languages – all without external funding.
The clam fills a crucial gap in our records of what the reef was like before industrial-era global warming.
The answer is more nuanced than it’s ever been.
Most Australian government entities are running outdated technology – and AI systems may reveal their weaknesses, intentionally or not.
Sometimes, mapping the whole universe starts with getting thousands of tiny robots to move in exactly the right way.
Voters need to become better at questioning what they see, without automatically disbelieving it.
News that an OpenAI agent hacked Medicare has prompted calls for Australia to develop its own AI system.
Some people may think it’s nice to listen to music with their plants. But is there any truth to the idea that certain music boosts plant growth?
After coding, mathematics and chatbots, AI companies are setting their sights on the messy world of biology.
We need to ask how ready Australian government systems are for increasingly capable AI agents.
This is unlikely to be the last time an AI agent hacks a government system.
For coastal communities, understanding how tides are changing is increasingly important.
Connected vehicles can be hacked, posing risks for safety and privacy.
Ageing isn’t all downhill – science shows we gain more than wrinkles.
The most probable scenario is likely not what you think.
A Senate inquiry report into last year’s Optus outage provides the government with a blueprint to modernise the telco industry.
Apple’s vision of constant recording that still ‘protects your privacy’ may help usher in a world where ambient surveillance is the norm.
AI is a global technology. A global approach to regulating it is urgently needed.
Rent tech is an unavoidable part of modern renting – and renters have little control over what data they have to give up and what happens to it afterwards.
A new study unearths the deep Earth connection between Lord Howe Island and its sibling chain of drowned volcanoes.
The decisions we make today will shape Australia’s future for decades.