NASA says there are ten “potentially hazardous” asteroids close to Earth. Good reason to make sure we have a backup plan should any catastrophic event wipe of much of life on Earth.
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One of the best ways to find out the challenges of living on Mars is to simulate living on another planet here on Earth. So what’s it like to spend several months living the Martian life?
The latest reboot of The Mummy is all you should expect from a Hollywood blockbuster on an ancient Egyptian curse. But what about the science?
There are plenty of apps that people with autism can use for learning, play and communication. Not all are designed with autism in mind, so what can we learn from any online user feedback?
Australians are living longer, and digital technologies could help them take control of retirement.
New paired research papers have pushed back by 100,000 years the time frame in which humans (Homo sapiens) are thought to have lived in Africa.
Politicians want social media giants to crack down on those publishing extremist material. A focus on disruption, encryption, recruitment and creating counter-narratives is recommended.
Robots, replicants, Time Lords and other “non-humans” fear death, so what does that say about us?
Layers and layers of sand and sediment collected in Naracoorte Caves create windows into what Australia was like in our recent past.
The artificial intelligence that beat a world master at the game of Go is now to be directed at more complex global problems. So what can we expect?
Australia ranks 15 out of 63 nations when it comes to digital competitiveness, according to a new report.
Ordinary grey bird feathers placed under X-ray fluorescence reveal beautiful patterns of elements like zinc, telling a story of feather growth and the environments the birds have experienced.
The Australian government’s cybersecurity report card is out and the results are worrying.
Scientists have made a third detection of gravitational waves, again caused by the merger of two black holes. But they think there’s something different about the black holes in this case.
To protect ourselves online, we should all understand a few key terms.
We may need to re-think our models of Jupiter’s formation thanks to the first results from Juno probe orbiting the planet, and new observations from Earth.
Your genes, your saliva and the bacteria that live in your mouth all shape how food tastes and what you prefer to eat.
Movies tell us that paying a ransom means the bad guys win, but in the real world it’s not that simple.
Driverless cars and drones will require pinpoint location accuracy, which means our methods for measuring the Earth’s centre need an overhaul.
The MP3 audio file transformed the way we accessed music online. So what does it mean now that licensing and support for the popular format is to end?
How we see the world depends on certain aspects of our personality.
No problem too big #1: Artificial intelligence and killer robots
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In this special Speaking With podcast episode, a panel of artists and researchers speculates on the end of the world due to artificial intelligence and killer robots, as though it has already happened.
Rays caught unintentionally by fishing trawlers often spend time on deck before being returned to the ocean. New research shows the stress of this experience affects pregnant rays, and their babies.
The Behind the Screen: Online Child Exploitation in Australia report provides an alarming snapshot of a growing crime.
Star Wars was a swashbuckling space fantasy that inspired some of the technology we see today, four decades after the film’s release.