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Health & Medicine
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The promise and peril of AI chatbots in healthcare
Artificial Intelligence chatbots like ERNIE Bot, ChatGPT and DeepSeek can often outperform doctors in diagnosis, but we need safeguards to avoid overprescribing and reinforcing inequality
Sciences & Technology
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We’re taking selfies from space
A tiny Australian satellite is chasing colliding stars and changing the way we think about space telescopes
Environment
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Thermal drones are helping to monitor some of Australia’s most elusive wildlife
Thermal camera-equipped drones are revolutionising wildlife surveys in Victoria’s native forests
Health & Medicine
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Revisiting a 100-year-old medical treatment to tackle the growing crisis of antibiotic resistance
Bacteria-killing viruses were used more than 100 years ago to treat infections, and now, as antibiotic-resistant infections increase, researchers are studying how we could bring them back
Education
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We still don’t know how to fix the global teacher shortage
Rigorous, independent evaluation is needed so Governments stop delivering ‘solutions’ for recruiting and retaining teachers that don't work and deliver more of those that do
Environment
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Saving the giants of the Australian forest
Mountain ash forests are predicted to lose a quarter of their trees by 2080, releasing over 100 million tonnes of stored carbon into the atmosphere. But there is a way to limit further loss
Sciences & Technology
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We’re twisting light to move more data
New technology that creates ‘light twisters’ using ultra-thin materials could shape the future of optical communications
Sciences & Technology
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One in three Australian e-scooter fatalities are children
A new study based on media reports finds young Australian e-scooter riders are much more likely than adults to die in crashes on our roads
Health & Medicine
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Why is research into women’s mental health decades behind?
Historically, medical research has excluded women as too complex. But a new study is investigating how the brain may drive alcohol misuse differently between the sexes.