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Digital detox and AI curbs in sweeping school reforms

Australian schools will limit screen time and restrict the use of artificial intelligence under a package of national education reforms announced today. The reforms will

NASA space telescope burns up north of Australia

NASA’s Swift satellite telescope, which spent two decades studying the most powerful known blasts of energy in the cosmos, has tumbled out of orbit and burned up

Mystery of the missing layers of Earth’s history solved

By Santosh Dhungana and Nicolas Flament Imagine opening a history book and finding several chapters torn out. This was what geologists looking into the rock records of

Evidence of red blood cells preserved in dinosaur remains

Scientists have discovered what they consider the strongest evidence yet of blood cells in a dinosaur fossil. The evidence has been found inside bone from the right leg

Meteorite from Mars is at least 4 billion years old

A meteorite found in 2022 in the Sahara in Mali formed in the Martian crust at least 4.1 billion years ago, according to scientists. This makes reddish igneous rock

Australian students turning away from creative arts

By David Roy Australian students in years 11 and 12 are increasingly turning away from creative arts subjects. An analysis of national figures shows that between 2015

Human hearts resilient enough for flight to Mars

The first manned mission to Mars is looking increasingly viable with new research showing the human heart can handle long periods of weightlessness. A new study tracked

Three-year jail term for creating sexual deepfakes

Queenslanders who create sexually explicit AI-generated images of another person without their consent face three years jail under legislation introduced into State

Mushroom causes mass tiny human hallucinations

A mysterious mushroom has been found to induce vivid visions of tiny humans at work. The same strange experience has been recorded by people living thousands of

Australian reefs all facing collapse within 50 years

Every shallow-water coral reef in Australia is facing an “extremely high” risk of collapse by 2075, an international assessment project has concluded. More than 250

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