Science, Technology and Innovation
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The first generations of ‘digi kids’ are struggling with literacy as experts warn against screen time
A Four Corners investigation has found there are growing fears among education experts that screen time is contributing to a…
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‘You’ll get through it’: Three Victorians tell an optimistic tale about mental illness
Driving into work as a pharmacist he’d be brimming with rage and irritation and he had no idea why. Miki…
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Climate change: ‘Clear and unequivocal’ emergency, say scientists
The study, based on 40 years of data on a range of measures, says governments are failing to address the…
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Getting by on six hours?
They’ve been called the “sleepless elite”. Sophie Aubrey The Age Barack Obama, Julia Gillard and Elon Musk would get six…
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Dutton’s facial recognition next step in burgeoning surveillance state
NEW DEVELOPMENTS in China regarding its social code citizens’ surveillance system, recently reported in IA, have since been extended to businesses.…
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Twitter is banning political ads – but the real battle for democracy is with Facebook and Google
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has announced that, effective November 22, the microblogging platform will ban all political advertising – globally.…
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China Claims a Major Stealth Breakthrough, but Is It True?
Key point: China may have invented something, but that doesn’t make it a military and technological earthquake. David Axe The…
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Scientists Now Know How Sleep Cleans Toxins From the Brain
Laura Lewis and her team of researchers have been putting in late nights in their Boston University lab. Sara Harrison…
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When you say you’re ‘stressed’ at work, you could be disguising a more specific problem
For many of us, it’s a number we’d need more than two hands to count. Anna Kelsey – Sugg &…
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Humanity’s birthplace: why everyone alive today can call northern Botswana home
The East African Great Rift Valley has long been the favoured contender – until today. Vanessa Hayes The Conversation Our…
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The devastating environmental impact of technological progress
For decades, David Maisel has been photographing places where humans are changing the environment so dramatically that the impact can…
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Block on GM rice ‘has cost millions of lives and led to child blindness’
Stifling international regulations have been blamed for delaying the approval of a food that could have helped save millions of…
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Number of violent attacks rises each year at Melbourne’s mental health hospital
Despite declaring “zero tolerance for any acts of aggression,” new data reveals Forensicare, which runs the high-security Thomas Embling Hospital,…
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Treating breast cancer when you can’t say ‘breast’
Early detection is essential for treatment but medical experts fear many women are not coming forward due to a culture…
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I Just Took the World’s First 20-Hour Flight.
I’ve just endured the world’s newest longest flight, a 16,200 kilometer (10,100 mile), nonstop ultra-marathon from New York to Sydney.…
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A ‘Game of Drones’ resets the rules in the South China Sea
A few months ago, the Pentagon announced the $47 million sale of 34 ScanEagle drones, made by Boeing, to the…
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