20-year study shows greener cities save lives
Increasing urban vegetation can reduce heat-related deaths by a third, with a longitudinal study finding more than a million lives could have been saved around the world
Read more1 May 2025Education
City streets mapped for robot deliveries
Delivery robots are already operating around the world, with plans in place to rate city footpaths to ensure the most efficient operation.
Researchers from Cornell Tech
Read more1 May 2025
Time to wake up to $75 billion sleep problem
The annual economic impact of sleep-related health issues in Australia is growing, soaring past $75 billion.
A new report, led by Flinders University, revealed that
Read more1 May 2025
Call to amend social work approach in communities
Social workers are being urged to change their practices when working in First Nations communities.
A University of South Australia (UniSA) study found current
Read more30 April 2025
Privacy concerns over classroom technology
The prevalence of digital tech in schools is raising student privacy concerns among academics.
An international team of researchers suggest many classroom education
Read more30 April 2025
Smart bandage speeds up healing process
A smart bandage, which monitors the healing of a wound, has been successfully trialled on people.
Caltech professor Wei Geo said the goal was to create a “lab on
Read more30 April 2025
A humerus tale about a water-dwelling echidna
One of Australia’s most bizarre type animals have just become a little stranger.
Research led by UNSW Sydney has shone new light on the evolution of echidnas and
Read more30 April 2025
Writing tools raise ‘AI colonialism’ concerns
Artificial intelligence (AI)-based writing assistants are westernising text, negating potential productivity gains in non-western cultures.
A study by researchers at
Read more30 April 2025
Humans still trump AI in assessing moving scenes
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is inferior to humans in interpreting social interactions in a moving scene, skills vital for self-driving cars and assistive
Read more28 April 2025
Bite mark first physical evidence of gladiator battles
The first physical evidence of a Roman gladiator battling a lion has been found in England.
Researchers say bite marks found on a skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery
Read more28 April 2025