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The Facebook Papers: Documents reveal internal fury and dissent over site’s policies

Oct 26, 2021

The comments are in thousands of pages of internal Facebook documents given to NBC News detailing Facebook’s internal debates around the societal impact of its platforms. Together the documents offer...

Ingenuity, design, and human spirit

Oct 26, 2021

Several years ago, a camp resident named Majid Al-Kanaan undertook a project to combat the visual and existential monotony of camp life. The book was edited by an MIT-based team...

Ahead of Jan. 6, Willard hotel in downtown D.C. was a Trump team ‘command center’ for effort to deny Biden the presidency

Oct 25, 2021

Also present was John Eastman, the scholar, who outlined scenarios for denying Biden the presidency in an Oval Office meeting on Jan. 4 with Trump and Vice President Mike Pence....

Koala genome data released in push to protect vulnerable species

Oct 25, 2021

Dr Carolyn Hogg with friend. Program co-investigator Dr Carolyn Hogg from the School of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Sydney said: “This project is developing a genome...

Millions of people were evacuated during disasters last year: another rising cost of climate change

Oct 25, 2021

Under human rights law, states are obligated to protect people from threats to life, including the adverse effects of disasters and climate change. Small island states are particularly affected by...

Help ward off dementia

Oct 25, 2021

But despite its prevalence, dementia remains one of the most challenging and misunderstood conditions. Now, to mark Dementia Action Week and World Alzheimer’s Day, researchers at the University of South...

Calling on all global space startups: the sky’s the limit in 2022

Oct 25, 2021

15 September 2021The University of South Australia’s Innovation & Collaboration Centre (ICC) is now accepting applications for its 2022 Venture Catalyst Space program. Recent graduates of the 2021 program include...

Obama Attacks GOP Candidate’s ‘Phony Culture Wars’ in Virginia

Oct 25, 2021

(Bloomberg) -- Former President Barack Obama waded into Virgina’s gubernatorial race, criticizing Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin for supporting “phony, trumped-up culture wars” in his bid to flip the state. With...

UniSA lung health expert takes the Oscar for Australia’s emerging leader in science

Oct 25, 2021

08 October 2021A UniSA researcher who “just scraped through high school” was last night named Australia’s emerging leader in science for her commitment to lung health and a vision for...

Scientists find vital link to identify people at risk of aneurysms

Oct 25, 2021

Warnings are rare, but of the million people who suffer a ruptured brain aneurysm each year, almost half will die and only a third will recover without disabilities. A new...