The history of humans’ use of technology has always been a history of coevolution. Philosophers from Rousseau to Heidegger to…
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With one in four of us expected to experience a mental health problem at any one time, increasing access to treatment has…
Digital platforms like Facebook and Google give us easy access to media and information. But our collective dependence on these…
Agriculture’s impact on the planet is massive and relentless. Roughly 40 per cent of the Earth’s suitable land surface is…
In denying news content to its Australian users, Facebook is arguably overplaying its hand, behaving as a big company that thinks…
In the past five years, ransomware attacks have evolved from rare misfortunes into common and disruptive threats. Hijacking the IT…
We’ll soon be able to properly start asking the question: “Are we alone in the universe?” Nasa’s next major mission,…
This month has been a busy one for Mars exploration. Several countries sent missions to the red planet in June last year,…
In the 2012 film “Robot and Frank”, the protagonist, a retired cat burglar named Frank, is suffering the early symptoms…
Wood is an ancient material humans have been using for millions of years, for the construction of housing, ships and…