French Minister of Defense Florence Parly (left) discusses the new French space force in a speech at Airbase 942 in Lyon-Mont Verdun, on July 25, 2019. Next to her on stage, French Air Force general Philippe Lavigne stands beside a model of a satellite. (Image: © Philippe Desmazes/AFP/Getty) Months after […]
An iceberg collapses near Canada’s east coast at King’s Point in Newfoundland, which has a front row seat to the consequences of global warming At dusk, tourists marvel at the sensational collapse of an iceberg at the end of its long journey from Greenland to Canada’s east coast, which now […]
Hockey contributes a lot to activity levels compared to other sports. from shutterstock.com Teenagers who play organised sport only get seven minutes more physical activity per day, on average, than teenagers who don’t play any sport. Our research, published in the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, found organised sport […]
Comet Hale-Bopp seen above the current Mauna Kea telescopes SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Rifts over a dormant volcano in Hawaii have resurfaced in recent days, pitting the state’s culture and history against its ambitions. Plans for a powerful new telescope near the summit of the Mauna Kea volcano could bring in […]
Demonstrators are gather to block a road at the base of Hawaii’s tallest mountain, Monday, July 15, 2019, in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, to protest the construction of a giant telescope on land that some Native Hawaiians consider sacred. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones) Astronomers have indefinitely stopped looking through 13 existing telescopes […]
The sense of touch is generally measured by a sensor that can translate a pressure upon it into a small electrical signal. Shutterstock We have robots that can walk, see, talk and hear, and manipulate objects in their robotic hands. There’s even a robot that can smell. But what about a sense of touch? This […]
One former member of Australia’s government review tribunal has described robo-debt as a form of ‘extortion’. Shutterstock Federal MP Amanda Rishworth raised concerns over the weekend that Australia could be headed for another robo-debt ordeal after the government reportedly confirmed the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) will use data matching to audit childcare […]
In this photo taken June 18, 2019, provided by the Ocean Voyages Institute, are nets brought in by the sailing ship Kwai from the Pacific gyre cleanup in Honolulu. Mariners on a sailing vessel hundreds of miles from the Hawaiian coast picked up more than 40 tons of abandoned fishing […]
Deepfakes make it harder for us to communicate truths to one another and reach consensus on what is real. Screenshot The recent viral “deepfake” video of Mark Zuckerberg declaring, “whoever controls the data controls the world” was not a particularly convincing imitation of the Facebook CEO, but it was spectacularly successful at […]
Many victims of school bullying suffer mental illness later in life. from shutterstock.com The Victorian state government was recently reported to be investigating whether it could make it easier for bullying victims to sue schools. This was prompted by the case of a 13-year-old boy who had to undergo surgery after being […]