Engineering & Technology

Global demand for lithium-ion batteries could rise twentyfold by 2050. New research finds even ambitious improvements won’t contain the climate impacts from their production

Music can have a powerful effect on your emotions. MoodDJ is putting that control in your hands to boost emotional awareness and wellbeing

Japan has record low levels of homelessness and Finland has spent decades driving its numbers down. One built its way there, the other made housing unconditional. Australia needs both

The steering committee for Bangladesh’s national AI policy lists three chief executives of the AI industry. When they help decide the rules that govern them, regulation becomes mere theatre

When asked to explain why an algorithm rejected a loan application, two AI models listed entirely different reasons. If AI can disagree like this, what does it mean for transparency?

AI is data-hungry and needs thousands of images to learn how to detect tumours or product defects, but often very few are available. A new method aims to change that

Generative AI is built on the work of humans but these creatives are rarely remunerated. If we don’t protect them now, entire categories of labour risk being obliterated

The same AI that can help revive endangered languages can also deepen historical injustice. The difference, research shows, comes down to whether Indigenous Knowledges are built in from the start

Skills training alone won't prepare graduates for a world where AI is doing the technical work. The real fix lies in how universities teach, not what