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There’s a lot of overlap in AI-related concepts. Understanding how they are different from each other, and how they relate, is important.
Collections of self-organising nanowires behave a lot like the neurons and synapses in our brains, with startling results.
Losses have surged, and change is needed to better protect Australians into the future.
For decades physicists have argued over the nature of the elusive dark matter that pervades the Universe. A clever new study uses gravitational lensing to bring new evidence to the debate.
A new, extensive database of language grammars from around the world indicates an alarming trend of global language loss.
Some animals appear to use a ‘parliament’ of genes to determine sex. But a closer look reveals these are the exception rather than the rule.
Some some said AI would not just reach human-level intelligence, but would probably surpass it.
New research on the Nullarbor Plain reveals the ancient climate change that separated Australia’s east and west ecosystems, shaping today’s biodiversity.
An asteroid ‘the size of 33 armadillos’ might be a flight of fancy, but real astronomers measure celestial objects with units that are just as strange.
Witnessing a total solar eclipse can be an unforgettable experience – and apparently, quite addictive.
There’s so much to process in our daily lives, we need habits to get us through and give the brain a break.
Calculating when and where exactly we can watch an eclipse in its full glory can be surprisingly hard.
Do record-breaking wind speeds mean a particularly catastrophic storm? Not always – and it can be tricky to get precise measurements.
Astronomers are hot on the search for new exoplanets – planets that lie beyond our Solar System – which might show potential for sustaining life.
We’re going to get up close and personal with three of Jupiter’s largest moons like never before.
Only a tiny sliver of the Australian continent will witness the totality this time around. But there are five more total eclipses coming over the next 15 years.
Researchers looked at the skeletal remains of 40 people, and found evidence of dairy consumption across a wide swathe of early Tibetan society.
Meet Ann: a toothy 95 million-year-old Diamantinasaurus from outback Queensland.
The 2.29 billion-year-old crater in Western Australia offers clues about what massive space rock impacts meant for the early Earth.
We all have a stake in life extension research, since we all age and are all slated to die. But one of the greatest risks it brings is the potential for social stagnation.
The most energetic events in the universe shower us with unbelievably energetic particles of light. Capturing these can help us to solve some enticing cosmic mysteries.
History might give you the impression astronomical discoveries were only done by men. But women were participating in scientific expeditions of eclipses too, even though it wasn’t easy.
Lab-grown meat seems green, ethical and quirky – but at industrial scale, it’s likely to cause unforeseen problems.
Medieval monks recorded hundreds of lunar eclipses. Centuries later, their descriptions are helping scientists unravel the role of volcanoes in historical climate change.