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The heart of AI
Open Forum | May 1, 2026Digital transformation and artificial intelligence in healthcare requires a range of safeguards and standards to work well, but new research from Flinders University provides support for effective AI systems to improve cardiovascular care.
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After antibiotics
Steven Kerrigan | May 1, 2026Antibiotics transformed medicine in the 20th century and saved countless lives but their overuse in medicine and factory farming has reduced their effectiveness, and big pharma companies have not invested in their replacement, leaving people increasingly vulnerable to infection.
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F is for Fake
Gediminas Lipnickas | April 30, 2026From fake medicines to watches, counterfeits are everywhere and getting harder to catch.
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Where the wild things are
Jim Smith | April 30, 2026The Chernobyl disaster tapped into our enduring fascination with radiation and mutation, with all sorts of claims being made about damaged wildlife and mutant animals in the exclusion zone but clear scientific evidence for significant long-term radiation effects is surprisingly hard to find.
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Your money or your digital life
Anja Shortland | April 30, 2026When evolutionary biologist Joseph Popp coded the first documented piece of ransomware in 1989, he had little idea it would become a major criminal business model capable of bringing economies to their knees.
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Remembering West Gate
Bernie O'Kane | April 29, 2026On 15 October 1970, dozens of workers building Melbourne’s West Gate Bridge were caught in its collapse in what is still Australia’s deadliest industrial accident. Thirty-five men were killed and the lives of many more workers and their families were abruptly disrupted. We should honour those who died in the West Gate Bridge failure but also understand why it happened.
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Headspace
Michelle Spear | April 29, 2026What happens to the memories we would like to keep? Some of them will fade – not because the brain has run out of space, but because they are not continually reinforced as memory is not preserved simply because it matters to us but only when it is revisited, retold, or reconnected to other experiences.
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The Russian resistance
Oula Kadhum | April 29, 2026You could be forgiven for thinking everyone in Russia either supports the war in Ukraine or is too scared to do anything about it but a handful of brave Russians still oppose Putin’s tyranny both at home and abroad.
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The heatwave…in Antarctica
Haosu Tang | April 29, 2026The recent heatwave in Antarctica might seem remote from everyday life but what happens there has global consequences.
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Why don’t voters like Albo?
Frank Bongiorno | April 28, 2026The times seem to suit Anthony Albanese and the opposition is in disarray so why isn’t he more popular?
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Moral metrics
Beth DuFault | April 28, 2026As traditional forms of moral authority weaken in the Western world, algorithmic systems are moving into the void.
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Grass on the tracks
Milad Haghani | April 28, 2026Green tram tracks offer a visible, popular, nature-based upgrade to cool streets, manage water, relax neighbourhoods and improve how a city looks and feels.
