By Henry Fraser, Law Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has just announced six mandatory artificial intelligence (AI) safety guardrails.
The government will establish a new AI safety regulator to enforce the regulations, with the power to impose significant penalties.
According to the guardrails, frontier AI companies – the ones with the most powerful AI models at the cutting edge of AI development – will have to:
- implement security controls
- identify…
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By Ava Kalinauskas, Senior Research Associate, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
Reprieve may be short-lived. With Democrats soon to control Congress, could Hegseth still become the first US defense secretary in history to be removed from office?
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By Dena K. Seidel, Science Communication Researcher and Science Filmmaker, Rutgers University
Marine scientists navigate autonomous glider robots across the Atlantic Ocean and along the West Antarctic Peninsula, collecting data to help predict storm intensity.
When farmers’ fields are destroyed by an unknown pathogen, plant scientists spend years breeding new varieties of disease-resistant food crops.
A team of microbiologists explore…
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By Alison Dagnes, Professor of Political & Social Inquiry, Shippensburg University
It’s an open secret in Harrisburg that Shapiro wants to run for president. But those ambitions may require careful timing, regardless of his personal strengths.
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By Ziyad Al-Aly, Clinical Epidemiologist, Washington University in St. Louis
Doctors often call the condition a stroke of the eye – and though the risk is small, patients should know the symptoms and seek immediate treatment if they occur.
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By Ian Christopher Fuller, Professor in Physical Geography, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
Tim Davies, Adjunct Professor of Disaster Risk and Resilience, University of Canterbury
The Waiho River is rising faster because it deposits gravel along a confined bed. There is a strong case for letting the river roam naturally.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
On this podcast we speak to two close observers about the Victorian election, RedBridge pollster Kos Samaras and the ABC’s Victorian state reporter Richard Willingham.
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By Janne Liebmann, Research Fellow, Curtin University
Tectonic plates may have allowed life to form on Earth – but exactly when they started moving is a long-standing mystery.
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By Nurbek Bekmurzaev
We saw a gap: young people were consuming information and even participating online, but without media literacy, digital security awareness, or confidence that their voice could shape anything.
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By Ezenwa E. Olumba, Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, Aston University
Thomas Stubbs, Professor of Global Political Economy, Royal Holloway, University of London
One of the deadliest attacks on Israel in 2024 came not from an Iranian missile or rocket, but from a single Hezbollah drone attack. On October 13, 2024, a drone struck the dining hall of a military base near Binyamina, south of Haifa, as Israeli soldiers were eating. It killed four people and injured 67.
Houthi rebels have been using drones to attack airports and oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, causing havoc in the Gulf kingdom. Israel and Saudi Arabia are two wealthy countries and have powerful militaries…
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