We’re ‘green chemists’ – why we think this emerging science can transform the way the world uses its resources

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Could sodium replace lithium as the dominant ingredient in batteries?

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Nearly everything we use online is owned by big tech. There’s a better way forward

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How traffic makes cities warmer

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Eaten, used as taxis and vomited up: how bees support other animals

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The Pennine hills are full of holes – here’s how they’re helping fight climate change

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Elon Musk sued OpenAI and lost. But the core question of the case remains unanswered

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Businesses need more than generic chatbots to benefit from AI. Will this budget help?

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If AI can translate instantly, why learn another language?

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More and more websites want proof you’re human. Blame the bots

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Can plants hear? Latest research offers new insights

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AI doesn’t create bias, it inherits it – how do we ensure fairness when it comes to automated decisions?

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Is your AI chatbot manipulating you? Subtly reshaping your opinions?

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From AI companions to climate action, we  undervalue what lies ahead

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College students are noticing their AI‑smoothed writing sounds strong — and not like them

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The AI scientist: now academic papers can be fully automated, what does this mean for the future of research?

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Can houseplants really purify the air in your home? What the science actually says

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Physicists have measured ‘negative time’ in the lab

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To lead in global innovation, Canada must prioritize basic science

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Canada’s fragmented electronic health records harm patients and cost taxpayers billions: New research

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Africa’s malaria fight needs stronger local research

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Making tech giants pay for news was a success the first time around. It can be done again

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‘Just looping you in’: why letting AI write our emails might actually create more work

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Tea tree oil may affect fertility, the EU says. A pharmacologist explains why that’s so misleading

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The Carney government’s embrace of AI will put lives at risk

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Bacteriophages: meet the viruses that hunt superbugs

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We found a way to turn Canada goose poop into chicken feed and crop fertilizer

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AI ‘deadbots’ can fuel pathological grief and affect how we deal with death

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What Honda’s EV retreat means for the future of clean tech

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Smartphone apps are changing how we study everyday brain activity

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These £500 plug‑in solar panels are about to go on sale: here’s what an expert says you need to know

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Scientists have found a safer way to hunt for the next pandemic virus

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What is black garlic? How heat and humidity turn a pungent ingredient mild and slightly sweet

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How scientists changed their view of insomnia

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Landmark privacy determination puts rent tech platforms on notice. But renters remain vulnerable

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Meta and Microsoft have joined the tech layoff tsunami – but is AI really to blame?

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The Promise and Peril of Ocean Carbon Removal

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To enrich or not to enrich nuclear fuel: Canada’s dilemma

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We eat a lot of wheat. So how can we grow more in a changing climate?

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Why delaying climate action now means higher seas by 2100 – new research

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Why some countries give away free electricity and even pay consumers to use it

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Microplastics have been found to interact with the gut microbiome – here’s what health effects they might have

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Codeine: why one person’s painkiller can be another person’s problem

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What a ‘post‑antibiotic era’ could mean for modern medicine

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AI has crossed a threshold – what Claude Mythos means for the future of cybersecurity

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Crypto tolls in the Strait of Hormuz shows why bitcoin thrives in times of crisis

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Edible orchids are being overharvested in the Mediterranean – how to protect these astonishing blooms

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Half of AI health answers are wrong even though they sound convincing – new study

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Why understanding autism means looking beyond spoken language – two autistic researchers of communication explain

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From floppy discs to Claude Mythos, how ransomware grew into a multibillion‑dollar industry

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Slanguage: Why AI’s stylistic negation — ‘it’s not X, it’s Y’ — is both annoying and doesn’t work

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Paris has successfully cut noise pollution, but urban birds still can’t sing at their natural pitch

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Opaque immigration screening threatens Canada’s global talent strategy

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The next frontier of AI is biological digital twins

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Why is alcohol use declining in Canada?

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Canada cannot afford to lose international research talent — here’s what needs to change

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Football is being spoiled by time‑wasting – what can be done ahead of the World Cup?

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How AI’s language barrier limits climate disaster responses

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How hidden soil fungi ‘steal’ bacterial DNA to control the rain

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Does ‘federated unlearning’ in AI improve data privacy, or create a new cybersecurity risk?

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How to build a digital ‘twin’ of the human brain – what existing models overlook

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Your brain for sale? The new frontier of neural data

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Five tips to make your memory work more effectively

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AI pragmatists: How language teachers are navigating AI with nuance

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Artificial intelligence and biology: AI’s potential for launching a novel era for health and medicine

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Canada’s cybersecurity sector has a pipeline problem — and a glass ceiling

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Just how bad are generative AI chatbots for our mental health?

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New research shows how forests can prevent floods of all sizes

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From ‘sustainable’ to ‘regenerative’ agriculture: What’s in a name?

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How the Artemis II crew trained to observe and photograph the moon: A NASA science team geologist explains

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Earthrise to Earthset: how the planet’s climate has changed since the photo that inspired the environmental movement

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Understanding how plants pause and restart growth can help develop climate‑resilient crops

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Treating previously untreatable cancers: How CAR‑T cell therapy could be made accessible to more patients

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Growing EV popularity is leading to queues at fast chargers. Could a kerbside charger network help?

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Apps pressure delivery riders into courting danger – here’s what needs to change

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Bumblebees can perceive rhythm, despite their brains being the size of a sesame seed

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AI laws overlook environmental damage – here’s what needs to change

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A Fifth of Global Seafood Is Mislabeled: How to Combat Fish Fraud

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Forever Chemicals’ Detected in Nearly 40% of Non-Organic California Produce

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AI scribes in health care raise risks for patients and privacy

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AI’s fluency in other languages hides a Western worldview that can mislead users − a scholar of Indonesian society explains

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COVID‑19 variant BA.3.2 is spreading quickly across US – a doctor explains what you need to know

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Water flow in prairie watersheds is increasingly unpredictable — but AI could help

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Effective storytelling can encourage climate action from policymakers and the public

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Neuroscience explains why teens are so vulnerable to Big Tech social media platforms

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More evidence doesn’t mean more justice: The limits of visual technologies in human rights cases

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Why AI health chatbots won’t make you better at diagnosing yourself – new research

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Landmark lawsuit finds that social media addiction is a feature, not a bug

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A flesh‑eating fly is advancing towards the US border – can it be stopped?

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Why saving power makes economic sense in the transition era

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Why forest loss is making our watersheds leak rain

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New study finds Canadians prone to generating electronic waste

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Importing queen bees won’t solve Canada’s beekeeping problems

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When everyday tasks become harder: Early clues to Alzheimer’s disease

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How plant populations keep a genetic memory of the past

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Can ‘mini brains’ replace lab animals? Organoids are changing how scientists study disease

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What a gaping hole on a bridge reveals about aging infrastructure in Canada

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OpenAI’s safety pledges in the wake of Tumbler Ridge aren’t AI regulation — they’re surveillance

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Will your electric car burst into flames? A solid‑state battery would reduce the risk

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What happens to your brain in nature? The neuroscience explained

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A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth

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Food security needs to be part of Canada’s defence strategy

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Why drawing eyes on food packaging could stop seagulls stealing your chips

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Human vision: what we actually see – and don’t see – tells us a lot about consciousness

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Can animals sense earthquakes?

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Is AI replacing the work of skilled radiologists? They give us their thoughts

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AI and work: an expert assesses how far this revolution still has to run

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How driverless vehicles can be made safer for deaf and hard of hearing people

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How we turned plastic waste into vinegar: A sunlight‑powered breakthrough

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Canada’s three main federal political parties are working together to fight voter privacy rights

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Is someone watching you? Facial recognition tech is here and Canada offers little privacy protection

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Budget cuts at Environment and Climate Change Canada threaten Arctic science

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What problem are return-to-office mandates meant to solve?

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Canada’s labour protections aren’t ready for the age of AI

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Space launches are changing the chemistry of Earth’s atmosphere, studies warn – here’s what can be done

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Will AI tools make better police officers?

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Intense heatwaves directly threaten crops and native species. Here’s what we can do

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Animals’ perception of time is linked to the pace of their life – new study

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Fears about AI taking our jobs are understandable – but harmful

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Three ways Canada can navigate an increasingly erratic and belligerent United States

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How political influencers avoid election rules, transparency and consequences

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Humanoid home robots are on the market – but do we really want them?

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Alberta confident on carbon pricing deal as minister announces $28 million for clean tech

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Snowball Earth wasn’t fully frozen: ice-free oases sheltered early life

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RNA is key to the dark matter of the genome − scientists are sequencing it to illuminate human health and disease

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Living in space can change where your brain sits in your skull – new research

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Swarms of AI bots can sway people’s beliefs – threatening democracy

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Replacing humans with machines is leaving truckloads of food stranded and unusable

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Five ways quantum technology could shape everyday life

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Can blockchain help track and reduce global supply chain emissions?

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What Ottawa can do to protect Canadians from cybercrime

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ChatGPT is in classrooms. How should educators now assess student learning?

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Fears about TikTok’s policy changes point to a deeper problem in the tech industry

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The numbers show just how tough this winter has been

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News sites are locking out the Internet Archive to stop AI crawling. Is the ‘open web’ closing?

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I studied 10 years of Instagram posts. Here’s how social media has changed

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An ‘AI afterlife’ is now a real option – but what becomes of your legal status?

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The healing power of poisonous plants

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Does the exodus to UpScrolled signify the end of TikTok?

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Repeal the Online News Act to better inform Canadians

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Does adding ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to your ChatGPT prompts really waste energy?

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Beneath Antarctica’s largest ice shelf, a hidden ocean is revealing its secrets

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Why Modern Fintechs Are Switching to a Payments Orchestration Platform in 2026

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Métis Nation must be partners in developing artificial intelligence

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Indian Head Research farm closing due to federal cutbacks

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Is AI hurting your ability to think? How to reclaim your brain

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Moore’s law: the famous rule of computing has reached the end of the road, so what comes next?

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Proposed new mission will create artificial solar eclipses in space

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OpenAI will put ads in ChatGPT. This opens a new door for dangerous influence

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Canada’s AI strategy stops at city limits

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Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology

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Will Google be third time lucky with new, AI-powered smart glasses?

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Microsoft’s AI deal promises Canada digital sovereignty, but is that a pledge it can keep?

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Canada can lead the world in sovereign, sustainable, responsible AI

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AI disruptions reveal the folly of clinging to an idealized modern university

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World-first social media wargame reveals how AI bots can swing elections

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Wormholes may not exist – we’ve found they reveal something deeper about time and the universe

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Reports of ‘AI psychosis’ are emerging — here’s what a psychiatric clinician has to say

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Could ChatGPT convince you to buy something? Threat of manipulation looms as AI companies gear up to sell ads

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How astronomers plan to detect the signatures of alien life in the atmospheres of distant planets

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Humanoid robots or human connection? What Elon Musk’s Optimus reveals about our AI ambitions

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Chemistry is stuck in the dark ages – ‘chemputation’ can bring it into the digital world

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People are getting their news from AI – and it’s altering their views

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AI agents arrived in 2025 – here’s what happened and the challenges ahead in 2026

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What actually is fire? A physicist explains

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Local mineral could help farmers improve soil health

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Can Government Efforts to Regulate AI in the Workplace Make a Difference?

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The Cloud We Live In

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Solid-State Batteries: The Bet Promising to Change Electric Vehicles

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Deepfakes leveled up in 2025 – here’s what’s coming next

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Why mangoes fall before they’re ripe – and how science is helping them hang on

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How can Canada become a global AI powerhouse? By investing in mathematics

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No, your brain doesn’t suddenly ‘fully develop’ at 25. Here’s what the neuroscience actually shows

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What the hyperproduction of AI slop is doing to science

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Some words affect us more than others. It boils down to how they sound

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Teenagers are preparing for the jobs of 25 years ago – and schools are missing the AI revolution

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For solution to AI’s energy crisis, look at the human brain

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Australia’s national plan says existing laws are enough to regulate AI. This is false hope

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Why do we wake up shortly before our alarm goes off? It’s not by chance

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What is super flu? And other questions answered

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Rage bait: the psychology behind social media’s angriest posts

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Nasa robot rover shows that sparks fly in dust storms on Mars

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Premier League football matches can be crime hotspots – but community sports centres have the opposite effect

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Google is relying on its own chips for its AI system Gemini. Here’s why that’s a seismic change for the industry

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Data centres in space: will 2027 really be the year AI goes to orbit?

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It’s not you – some typefaces feel different

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AI promises efficiency, but it’s also amplifying labour inequality

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What are small language models and how do they differ from large ones?

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Australia’s national AI plan has just been released. Who exactly will benefit?

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56 million years ago, the Earth suddenly heated up – and many plants stopped working properly

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Could a national, public ‘CanGPT’ be Canada’s answer to ChatGPT?

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How digital twins will enable the next generation of precision agriculture

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How ‘digital twins’ could help prevent cyber-attacks on the food industry

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Nature’s greatest method actors: the insects that cosplay bumblebees

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AI is making spacecraft propulsion more efficient – and could even lead to nuclear-powered rockets

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The ChatGPT effect: In 3 years the AI chatbot has changed the way people look things up

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India’s new rules to tackle deepfakes look good, but are hard to put in action

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AI in journalism and democracy: Can we rely on it?

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AI chatbots are encouraging conspiracy theories – new research

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What the Canadian government is missing on AI

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