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Ancient Egyptian princesses were buried with bows, arrows and daggers – and new research shows they weren’t just for decoration.
A handful of tiny fossil jaws fill a missing chapter in the evolutionary history of Australia’s most successful marsupial predators.
Natural selection may not be the only force that has contributed to the evolution of channel millet’s unusual genetics.
The confirmation of the bird flu virus in a brown skua appears to be a single detection. Ongoing surveillance will be essential to detect any further cases.
Many baby boomers see AI as a revolutionary tool, while young people see it as taking away their agency.
This year alone, the Philippines’ volcano monitoring agency has recorded 18 eruptive events at Taal Volcano – but they haven’t been the kind you might expect.
Hours before Albanese delivered a major speech on AI in Sydney, the US state of New York imposed a one-year pause on building new data centres.
Unlike all other mammals, seals can hear both in the air and underwater. How do they do this?
Domestic roaming could reduce the disruption – including to Triple Zero services – caused by a major outage on one mobile network.
Sextortion is arguably the most predictable serious crime on the internet. It follows a script – and it can be stopped.
Anthropic says there is something lurking inside Claude that looks a lot like the ‘global workspace’ one influential theory of consciousness depends on.
The proliferation of apps might seem innocuous. But it comes with several hidden problems.
What happens in the deep ocean might seem far removed from your everyday life. A new study shows otherwise.
Controversy over the World Cup’s high-tech refereeing system shows sport is still more an art than a science.
AI’s risks and harms are already affecting Australians. There are new ones coming.
A new study challenges conventional thinking about what drove the extinction of megafauna.
New mathematical modelling shows the first smallpox epidemic among Aboriginal people in the Sydney region may have spread thousands of kilometres and lasted decades.
When we’re awake, our imaginations are quite different. But what about our dreams?
‘Silicon sampling’ promises easy answers to tough questions about human behaviour – but the reality is more complicated.
Telecommunications is only one domain in which timing faults can have serious consequences.
It wasn’t just mobile phones that went down with the Telstra outage. Here’s how trains connect to the mobile network.
Today, cloning is not a technology that can simply “copy and paste” living things. But it’s brought advances in several fields of science.
An analysis of Lotto entries shows many players gravitate to the same number combinations, increasing prize sharing and reducing value.
New Zealand’s well-documented fossil and living marine fauna allows scientists to explore drivers of extinction risk that are relevant globally.