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Here’s what inflatable operators are supposed to do – and where the risks arise.
The government is returning to some unfinished business: strengthening its social media age restrictions.
Are we optimising too much?
There have long been calls for digital duty of care laws in Australia – since well before the under-16s social media ban. But enforcement may be tricky.
Sea sponges are some of the world’s simplest animals – but even so, the rhythm of night and day kicks off a crucial stage of their life cycle.
Brain implants can change people’s lives during clinical trials, but what happens next can be just as important.
A study of more than 1 million people found genetic influences on the Big Five traits that shape our personality.
Underwater sound signals created by 2022’s enormous Hunga eruption have pointed scientists to a new way to warn people of unpredictable volcanic tsunamis.
A new study shows stronger guardrails on search engines are needed to prevent the spread and legitimisation of conspiratorial beliefs.
New rules on what companies can do with personal information include tighter consent requirements, a ‘right to be forgotten’, and a simple test for what’s OK.
People should have meaningful choices about the systems organising their attention.
A new study has found that Tasmanian tigers had an adaptation found in no living carnivorous mammal.
AI is a kind of media – and we’ve seen before what new media can do to society.
AI has broken the economic bargain behind the web, and everybody is losing.
AI models could spot volcanic eruptions earlier – and new research says the lives saved make the occasional false alarm worth the price.
In August 2018, just four months before she died, I had the great fortune to interview Nancy Grace Roman about her extraordinary life studying the stars.
Decisions made now could shape Indigenous relations with the government around AI for years to come.
The discovery challenges a long-held assumption about where and when whales feed – and could help us better protect them.
Major changes for TikTok and YouTube could be about to follow.
Greek and Roman writers were already asking how birds became sick, what signs to look for, and what could be done when disease appeared in them.
Scientists have been able to catalogue the largest earthquakes for a very long time.
Aviation safety is in the spotlight after four incidents at Sydney airport in almost as many weeks.
There’s no single giveaway. But there are patterns.
It turns out these little red dots might actually be evidence of supermassive black holes.