Cleaner air in east Asia has driven recent acceleration in global warming – new study
A traffic jam in Beijing in China, where air pollution has drastically reduced. Hung Chung Chih/Shutterstock Global warming has picked up pace since around 2010, leading to the recent string of record warm years. Why this...

View from The Hill: Segal’s antisemitism plan gives government controversy, not clarity
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese may be rueing what seemed a good idea at the time the appointment of a special envoy to combat antisemitism (as well as an envoy to combat Islamophobia). Or perhaps Jillian Segal, a former...
How do you stop an AI model turning Nazi? What the Grok drama reveals about AI training
Anne Fehres and Luke Conroy AI4Media, CC BY Grok, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot embedded in X (formerly Twitter) and built by Elon Musks company xAI, is back in the headlines after calling itself MechaHitler...
Vanessa Nunes/Getty Images In 2024 alone, Australias medicines regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), authorised at least 979,000 prescription applications for medicinal cannabis through its specialised...
Treasury warns the government it may not balance the budget or meet its housing targets
Kokkai Ng/Getty In the runup to each election, federal treasury produces a blue book and a red book, with advice tailored to the priorities of the two alternative governments. One of these is given to the incoming...

Over the weekend, the Indian Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau released a preliminary report on last months crash of Air India flight 171, which killed 260 people, 19 of them on the ground. The aim of a preliminary...