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In oral cultures, knowledge must be collectively maintained. AI can help people engage in dialogue with their heritage.
A new method that uses a simple air sample and the power of a dog’s nose makes it easy to check shipping containers for trafficked wildlife.
The next jar of Australian honey you buy may just be doing more good than you realise.
Questions about ethical AI may go out the window when democratic norms are collapsing.
Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand are in a prime position to catch this total eclipse of the Moon; find the timing in our interactive map.
The newly described fossil goose Meterchen luti lived alongside crocodilians and turtles on the shores of the ancient Lake Manuherikia.
Olive was meant to make shopping easier. Instead it’s mouthing off about its ‘mother’ and mistaking the price of basic items.
The key is to gently wash your raincoat regularly.
Low-cost Chinese-made AI could outcompete premium US models – and it won’t be an accident.
Astronomers captured the clearest example yet of one of these hidden explosions.
The Rubin Observatory in Chile has the largest camera ever built – and is set to find objects never before seen by human eyes.
A mathematician explains hypercubes and the rules of life in higher dimensions.
Most current safety initiatives focus on responding to online-enabled harm, not prevention.
Your body has trillions of cells. But a gene mutation in just one of them could prove fatal.
Before we accept AI as the cure, we need to understand what we are being sold.
A new paper provides the first statistically derived estimate of bee species richness around the world. But this is about more than bees.
Police struggles to track down the makers of illegal 3D-printed guns. But a new forensic chemistry method can help.
A newly-dated geological timescale will help scientists connect NZ’s deep past to present day hazards, climate change and biodiversity.
Astronomers have been watching the supergiant WOH G64 for decades – and it might have turned into a hypergiant and be heading for self-destruction.
Punch’s attachment to his plushie isn’t just the subject of a heart-wrenching video. It harks back to the story of a very famous set of 1950s psychology experiments.
The strange fossils were lost in museum collections around the world for some 50 years.
A new map offers a new perspective on the city, revealing the steady, ever-present natural radiation emerging from the ground beneath our feet.
A robot butler sounds like a nice idea, but the technology has its drawbacks.
A new study provides the first evidence that re-entering space debris pollutes Earth’s upper atmosphere.