Frilled sharks haven’t changed for about 80 million years! And while they may look a bit like snakes from a distance, they are actually much more similar to other sharks close up.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Science + Tech – Articles, Analysis, Comment
Displaying 1001 - 1025 of 6591 articles
A Google engineer claims one of the company’s chatbots has become sentient. Experts disagree, but the debate raises old questions about the nature of consciousness.
Recently, concerns have been raised over the harm caused by misinformation in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic and federal elections.
Shared designs for stone tools across southern Africa show early humans had wide social connections before beginning to migrate to the rest of the world.
Australia may soon have three commercial space launch facilities
Apple’s emphasis on innovation, couples with its customer-centric vision, has enabled it to become a “way of life” in the modern world. This gives it an edge over its fin-tech competitors.
Australia is in the middle of a much-needed process of regulating cryptocurrency and related digital assets, but there’s plenty still to be done.
Younger people aged 18 to 28 were more likely to be negatively impacted by manipulative designs on websites and apps.
Tracking mosquitoes is essential to understanding their pest and public health risks. You can help too – here’s how.
‘Vicootes’, ‘wa ch zod rea’ and other strings of gibberish seem to have special meanings to state-of-the-art AI models. What’s going on here?
We’ve seen AI systems writing texts that are indistinguishable from human texts. Some are even rendering impressive 3D artworks from short text inputs. But it doesn’t mean they can ‘think’ like us.
Between growing scam and hack incidents, global cyber warfare threats, and the increasing connectivity of our systems – keeping Australia’s cyber defences up is of the utmost importance.
Few animals have babies without sex, so biologists assumed asexual reproduction must have evolutionary drawbacks. But a self-cloning Australian grasshopper shows things might be more complicated.
When Mehreen Faruqi first became the first Australian Muslim senator, she didn’t expect to receive the amount of abuse she did.
A single seagrass plant in Shark Bay is around 4,500 years old, covers 200 square kilometres of seabed, and thrives in harsh conditions.
We wanted to understand the ways in which predatory animals eavesdrop on the sexual ‘conversations’ of their prey.
Scams in both the crypto gaming and blockchain space more broadly are increasing.
The object has a highly unusually long rotation period, and was found in an area we call the neutron star ‘graveyard’.
Can software be an ‘inventor’? As courts wrestle with AI patent applications, the law must change to keep up.
Many organisations abide by a “zero trust” rule wherein absolute trust is placed in nothing, apart from a central identity and access management system. But what happens when this system is breached?
Authors writing for Nature journals will also need to separate sex and gender data, so it can’t just be lumped in with other results.
A long-term study of wild animal populations shows each generation is on average almost 20% genetically ‘better’ than their parents at surviving and reproducing.
Could the Tau Herculid meteor shower put on a spectacular show next week? Only time will tell.
New modelling shows how tectonic plate movements, carbon-rich deep-sea sediment, and mountain weathering have regulated Earth’s climate.
One weather configuration has been responsible for record-breaking downpours in Australia, South America, and South Africa this year.