A 2019 study tracking 520 people in the Netherlands over six years found that participants high in nostalgia kept larger close social networks as they aged, while those low in nostalgia watched theirs shrink. The effect ran in one...
When marine acousticians first lowered hydrophones into tropical reefs in the early twentieth century, they reported back a sound like fat sizzling in a pan, a continuous crackle that drowned out almost everything else. Submariners during the Second World...
As the FIFA World Cup kicks off across North America, a Vancouver-based AI startup is using the tournament to show what a text-first personal assistant can do.
Orchid has launched a free World Cup experience that lets fans receive live...
For decades, the dominant warning about midlife went something like this: the empty nest will hit when the last child leaves, you will cry for a week, and then you will rediscover yourself through pottery classes and weekend trips....
At roughly 10:30 p.m. on October 29, 1969, a UCLA graduate student named Charley Kline put on a telephone headset, sat down at a computer terminal in Boelter Hall, and began typing the word that would open the door...
Fewer than 100 mature Wollemi pines grow in the wild. Their exact location is a state secret, withheld from maps and guarded by a small circle of Australian rangers who reach the site by helicopter, in sterilised boots, on...
The story of the latest ShinyHunters campaign is not really about a bug in Oracle PeopleSoft. It is about what happens when a single piece of enterprise software runs the back office of thousands of institutions, and a single...
The federal Budget’s proposed changes to capital gains tax (CGT) are rushed and deeply flawed, peak accounting body CPA Australia has warned, and will cost billions to implement.
The changes, announced last month under the guise of improving housing...
The United States remains the most compelling growth destination for Australian technology and innovation companies, but it is also one of the most unforgiving.
For founders and executives who have built strong businesses at home, the leap across the...
R&D investment and commercialisation can’t be treated as separate issues, says Liza Noonan, CEO of Sydney deep-tech hub Cicada Innovations, on episode 61 of Startup 360.
Liza unpacks deep tech — think quantum computing, medical devices and advanced manufacturing —...
