The figure, which is much higher than previous estimates of large-language-model use, is for papers published in December and archived in PubMed.

Health evidence must be considered in the approval process of new coal and gas projects.

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is on track to be the largest ever.

This is critical stuff: no democracy can survive the assault of what Jefferson referred to as “an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents” when only one fa...

These brainiacs have set fire to a trillion dollars and delivered nothing but IP theft and deepfake porn. It's no wonder the American AI giants want protection.

As soon as you realise the AI industry is packed with adherents to a cult of climate and fossil fuel dismissiveness, everything clicks into place.

More than 150,000 underwater explosives have been used against seals at Tasmanian salmon farms since 2016, according to new government data.

The US Census is home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person living in the country, which is used for apportioning and drawing congressional districts as well as allocating federal fu...

Like Macklemore and Ed Sheeran, and Ed Sheeran’s band and Ed Sheeran, relations between Penny Wong and myself are “complicated”....

It’s complicated and everyone is having a lot of feelings

Calls for regulation of AI coming from big tech companies should be treated with deep suspicion, especially when linked to a US program to contain China. Why don't they start with data centres instead...

Australians are walking a tightrope. Imagine a long line of us traversing a chasm. Some of us – not many...

After joining other countries in recognising the state of Palestine, Australia has broken from the pack of other nations in not adopting trade sanctions against West Bank businesses.

The greatest success of fossil fuel corporations — and the politicians and commentators who support them — has been convincing the media that there's no story to tell in the climate crisis.

One Nation's superannuation policy looks very similar to the Coalition's previous ones, which only serve to transfer wealth from younger people to older asset owners. It's bad news for productivity to...

Assisted by AI, companies have more options than ever to track employees, minute by minute, keystroke by keystroke. Does this have the desired effect?

Media coverage of Jayson Arday’s life linked to a Cambridge far-right 'race science' network linked to Palantir founder Peter Thiel.

The United Nations has never appointed a woman Secretary-General. Four experienced women are now in the running, but the Security Council’s veto politics could still decide the outcome.

In a world filled with scams, being wary makes perfect sense. But health, trust and decision-making can suffer when the fear of getting conned goes too far.

The Government has secretly put Palantir into its automated decision system inside the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)

Julia Gillard was subjected to the highest proportion of opposition questions of any prime minister in recent decades.

New study is among the first to quantify and explain slavery’s influence in contemporary U.S. health disparities

Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas presents a disturbing vision of a potential AI future, and general practice will not be immune to its pitfalls.

This gap was already a problem before the latest data. But the most recent results show how things are getting worse.

Silicon Valley companies are already working on neurotechnology products that track your brain activity. The next privacy frontier might be the things you only think.

Human-rights groups estimate that more than ten thousand Ukrainian civilians have disappeared into the Russian prison system. This is the story of one cell in the new Gulag.

Capitalism has transformed consumers into a feedstock for multibillion-dollar companies — and the Albanese government seems reluctant to address it at all.

The NSW Government has finally agreed to protect 176,000 hectares of forest and create the Great Koala National Park – a habitat for koalas and 66 other threatened species. But there's a catch. Under...

The census gives you the option to preserve your records, to be released after 99 years. We should all consent.

Save the Maugean Skate Tasmania is home to a globally unique species that emerged 60 million years ago – the Maugean Skate. Today, the IUCN red-listed Maugean skate is considered one of the most end...

The media have the power to make Hanson’s tyrannical attitudes and behaviour a central issue, and their failure to use this power has only emboldened her.

There’s little transparency about who has access to deeply personal medical data or how companies handle it.

A royal commission focused on individual criminality may not address the underlying conditions that allowed corruption to flourish.

Even though Norway and Qatar are fundamentally different countries than Australia, they do much better than us when it comes to converting gas exports into cash for their citizens.

The Australian Federation of Medical Women is calling on AHPRA and the Australian Medical Association to urgently clarify how doctors’ lawful advocacy and professional speech will be protected followi...

Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.

I'm representing an arts collective kicked out of a former church because the landlord deemed their work 'offensive'. At the heart of the case is a key question: can one invoke legal authority in supp...

When governments make access to housing more equitable, it’s because they recognise its social and economic value

Bills are the real barrier to participation in HE - and impacting the Accord's underserved demographics more harshly than others, Richard Blythe writes.

Hatam Yekta, a 36-year-old Kurdish asylum seeker, has spent 13 years languishing in Port Moresby. His body, once the kind revered by many Australians, is now critically ill.

Nothing is stopping our well-paid university leaders from having second jobs — even with organisations that benefit from the university. Is this the kind of industry we want?

While Neil the Seal dominated the headlines, a major salmon company quietly updated its website to acknowledge the death of an unnamed Australian fur seal at one of its fish farms.

"A three-year arts degree now lands around $50,000 of debt on the student. That is not a subsidised public place. It is a privately funded degree with a government loan attached," Richard Blythe write...

The United States has abandoned the rules and habits of diplomacy in favour of threats, sanctions and violence. If the west wants peace, it must relearn how to talk to its enemies.

Despite transferring property worth millions to an associated entity for $1 each, the Christian Brothers have been granted a pause on paying abuse victims due to a lack of funds.

The public figures pushing a heated anti-immigration rhetoric are struggling.