Science & Health
AI slop: An unwelcome form of online content
Adam Nemeroff
03/09/2025
You’ve probably encountered images in your social media feeds that look like a cross between photographs and computer-generated graphics. Some ...
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It’s fantasy to think AI can be free from bias and ideology
Declan Humphreys
20/08/2025
In July, the United States government made it clear that artificial intelligence (AI) companies wanting to do business with the White House ...
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Science versus ownership: The true value of fossils
Jessica Theodor
14/08/2025
Last year, a Stegosaurus nicknamed ‘Apex’ sold at auction for US$40.5 million. A juvenile Ceratosaurus fetched US$30.5 million just last month. Supporters of ...
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The dangers of exponential growth
Elizabeth Dangerfield
07/08/2025
António Guterres understands something that most world leaders do not. He knows that exponential growth is unrelenting and immensely destructive. ...
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The fast lane to a renewable energy future
Andrew Blakers
04/08/2025
An academic living in cold Canberra retired his gas heaters a few years ago and installed electric heat pumps for ...
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When AI audits the scholarly record, what will happen to public trust in science?
Naomi Oreskes
31/07/2025
Self-correction is fundamental to science. One of its most important forms is peer review, when anonymous experts scrutinise research before it ...
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Why the British accepted evolutionary science and Americans didn’t
Edward White
18/07/2025
One hundred years after a Tennessee teacher named John Scopes started a legal battle over what the state’s schools can ...
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Reproducibility: A foundation of scientific credibility
Sarah Supp
07/06/2025
Many people have been there. The dinner party is going well until someone decides to introduce a controversial topic. In ...
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Just like magic: Tapping into the secrets of the human mind
Radoslaw Wincza
05/05/2025
Magicians have long been masters of mind games, turning our brain’s quirks and blind spots into moments of pure astonishment. ...
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Separating facts from fake news in the realm of health and nutrition
Aimee Pugh Bernard
30/01/2025
The COVID-19 pandemic illuminated a vast landscape of misinformation about many topics, science and health chief among them. Since then, information overload continues unabated, and ...
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In science we trust
Mathew Marques
22/01/2025
Public trust in scientists is vital. It can help us with personal decisions on matters like health and provide evidence-based ...
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How too much security threatens the era of global science collaboration
Caroline Wagner
17/01/2025
Amid heightened tensions between the United States and China, the two countries signed a bilateral science and technology agreement on 13 ...
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