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Don’t panic!
Mandy Freund | July 7, 2026The prospect of a strong El Niño during the Southern summer may mean lower rainfall for south-eastern Australia but may not condemn the rest of the continent to another ‘big dry’.
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The fantastic fifty
Nick Thieberger | July 7, 2026Many of Australia’s indigenous languages have already been lost or been reduced to a handful of speakers, but a new online project aims to preserve endangered languages like Djukun fifty words at a time.
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How big tech swallowed journalism
John Coyne | July 7, 2026Digital platforms destroyed the gatekeeping monopoly once held by newspapers and broadcasters but while the modern influence economy preserves journalism’s reach it discards the checks and balances required to keep information credible.
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Read all about it
Neil Selwyn | July 6, 2026The Albanese government will develop a National Media Literacy strategy as part of its $153.5m ‘News Media Assistance’ program, but it will not be an easy task.
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Teaching in the age of AI
Sally Male | July 6, 2026What is the future of university education when students can pass a course by auto-generating answers and submitting them without reading them or learning anything?
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A stitch in time
Open Forum | July 6, 2026Promising health tools that can predict a person’s risk of serious health problems before they happen are rarely being utilised in everyday healthcare, according to new Curtin University research.
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Should Australia build its own AI?
Olivia Shen | July 6, 2026Can Australia improve its access to the latest American AI models, or even build its own in the future?
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Self driving cities
Zuduo Zheng | July 5, 2026Autonomous cars keep making the same mistakes, so instead of improving their training, perhaps we should reshape our roads to make it easier for them to navigate.
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Camouflage
Open Forum | July 5, 2026New research led by Murdoch University has found that companies which aggressively avoid tax are also more likely to exaggerate how environmentally responsible they are to protect their public image.
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Avoiding a data centre backlash
Raffaele Ciriello | July 5, 2026If Australian land, energy, water, workers, research institutions, and communities power the AI boom, then who benefits and who bears the burden?
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Lonely as a cloud
Jordan Wehrman | July 4, 2026What makes our mind wander when we want to concentrate on a task, and why can that help us come up with an answer that sitting at our desk does not?
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The song does not remain the same
Andrew Cullen | July 4, 2026Australian musicians hate AI using their songs, but have little legal protection against tech firms using their work without permission or recompense to train models which then imitate their work and undermine their living.
