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We should be concerned about the sweeping discretion social media companies have over so much of our speech.
Persuasive design in kids’ apps is often overlooked in the screen-time debate.
Our work provides new evidence against the theory that people living in Sahul drove the megafauna extinction.
Do we really have ‘core memories’ that shape our personality? The science says things are a little more complicated.
Viral TikTok star Emmanuel – a US-based emu who enjoys a vast online following – has fallen sick with avian influenza. So what is this disease and what’s the risk in Australia?
Mainland resettlement programmes for tuatara have hit an unexpected snag – the lizard’s voracious appetite for seabirds.
The sentient, murderous humanoid robot is a complete fiction, and may never become reality. But that doesn’t mean we’re safe from autonomous weapons – they are already here.
The binary star WR140 is surrounded by an astonishing array of nested shells of dust swirling into space.
The risk of experiencing harm online is real, especially for children – but decades of research don’t support the alarmist tropes used in these conversations.
A new list of 404 Australian mammal species is a crucial conservation step in the face of the ongoing extinction crisis.
How you feel and how you use social media both affect each other – but one impacts the other more.
DART has forever changed the orbit of a small asteroid – and done so with much greater success than expected.
In the age of AI image generation, believing your own eyes may not hold the same weight it once used to.
Modern DNA sampling is shockingly sensitive – you can get someone’s profile from just 80 cells.
Under normal circumstances the Crimean Bridge would be shut for a long time – but circumstances are far from normal.
Deep in the oceans dwell creatures that can evade many of the evolutionary drivers of life on land – and they remain seemingly unchanged through time.
Nature’s recent efforts to redefine the ethical responsibilities of scientists leave a lot to be desired.
Quantum mechanics raised tough philosophical questions about the nature of the world – and a physicist named John Bell figured out how experiments could answer them.
Running out of disk space and it’s making you anxious?
A lottery jackpot being won by 433 people in the Phillipines has raised accusations of foul play. Then again – such outcomes usually do.
A small congregation of the cockroaches was under the first rock scientists looked under, by sheer accident.
An additional verification step can go a long way to protect your online stuff – but not all methods are equally safe.
Imposing outright social media bans can do more harm than good.
Humanoid robots could be useful in all kinds of situations, but the one Elon Musk unveiled last week is far from being ready to roll out.