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If you look carefully at the night sky, you may spot this fuzzy visitor with the naked eye – but binoculars will help.
There’s no escaping generative AI as it infiltrates our workplaces and daily lives. Learning what these tools can do will help you understand their full impact.
New research reveals signs of ancient human habitation in a vast cave beneath the Arabian desert. It may have been used as a waystation by Stone Age herders travelling from one oasis to another.
With 17 billion internet-connected devices worldwide, AI is subtly creeping into our everyday lives – and making us more vulnerable to cyberattacks.
Brain scanners and AI can turn brainwaves into streams of text – but language only captures a tiny fraction of our mental experience.
Users of online forums frequently advise others to play Tetris if they’ve experienced something traumatic. The idea does come from psychological research – here’s what the evidence says.
Some extinct kangaroos may barely have hopped at all.
Maritime folklore is awash with tall tales of monstrous waves. A new study gets closer to understanding where they come from and how to predict them.
New research shows carbon in soil minerals is much more important than anybody realised.
The age of AI warfare has arrived – and it’s not looking good.
Pottery made more than 1800 years ago by Aboriginal communities on Jiigurru in the Lizard Island group in the Great Barrier Reef is the oldest ever found in Australia.
Astronomers caught the bizarre ‘awakening’ of an incredibly rare magnetic star.
Roughly half of people surveyed support the development of autonomous vehicles. But a third were undecided about many aspects and will need to be convinced about their safety and other benefits.
Textbooks often show Earth’s orbit around the Sun as an almost egg-shaped ellipse. The real story is very different.
A secret, years-long project to implant a backdoor in a widely used free software tool was only foiled by luck.
We can’t rule out the possibility today’s earthquake was not even the biggest event in this sequence, although as time passes the likelihood of a larger associated event decreases.
A zap with a laser in the lab confirmed the extraterrestrial origins of enigmatic lumps of glass found in the Northern Territory.
The extinction of the dinosaurs sparked an explosion of bird species, according to the largest-ever study of bird genetics.
People with aphantasia can’t imagine seeing things in their mind. People with ‘deep aphantasia’ may have no inner voice, either, and different real-world visual experiences.
A new change to Meta’s apps will see users no longer recommended political content by default. The ramifications of this will be far-reaching.
Quantum computers that work at slightly higher temperatures could be cheaper and more accessible.
Powerful jets are launched from the most massive objects in our universe, but we don’t fully understand how. This measurement gets us a step closer to solving the mystery.
Bridges are getting safer – but their designers need to keep up with the ever-growing size of cargo ships.
Without satellites, we wouldn’t have much of the Earth and climate data we have today. And Australia is a world leader in satellite data.