DeepSeek: how a small Chinese AI company is shaking up US tech heavyweights
More efficient AI models may make research easier – and raise questions about the value of investments in huge datacentres.
You don’t have to be a net zero hero – how focus on personal climate action can distract from systemic problems
Shifting the blame for the climate crisis onto individuals hides the larger issue. True progress demands systemic ...
Trump pulls out of WHO and Paris – how did international bodies get through deglobalisation last time around?
Modern global regulatory bodies should draw upon the repertoire of strategies used by their 1930s predecessors to survive ...
What are sleep retreats? A sleep scientist explains the latest wellness trend
Considering the effect of poor sleep on the individual as well as on society and the economy, it is hardly surprising sleep ...
A hot and troubled world of work: how South Africa’s bold new climate act and labour law can align to drive a just transition
South Africa is working on how best to integrate labour and environmental justice and how its labour laws can be used to ...
Deepseek: China’s gamechanging AI system has big implications for UK tech development
The UK government’s recent and much-publicised 50-point action plan on AI offers glimpses of progressive intent, but also ...
Australia’s drama dilemma: how taxpayers foot the bill for content that ends up locked behind paywalls
Commercial TV broadcasters once commissioned around 300 hours of Australian drama each year. Last year, they commissioned ...
Here’s what ‘deep listening’ can tell us about the natural world and our place in it
To listen deeply to nature is to become aware of behaviours, relationships and patterns of interaction between multiple ...
How the AFL and NRL have crept into cricket’s traditional summer timeslot
The AFL and NRL seasons are getting longer, seemingly every year. This poses some major difficulties for cricket in summer.