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1 week ago | 
techxplore.com | John Hawkins |Gaby Clark |Alexander Pol
As Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Treasurer Jim Chalmers turn their attention to improving productivity growth across the economy, it will be interesting to see what the business community brings to a planned summit in August. Labor productivity (output per hour worked) has barely grown this decade. Much of the focus in the current debate has been on the role of workers (labor) and industrial relations. Less discussed has been low business investment (capital).
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2 weeks ago | 
medicalxpress.com | Katie Pearce |Gaby Clark |Alexander Pol
At a conference on aging two years ago, Li-Mei Chen slipped on a pair of virtual reality (VR) goggles and found herself inside the mind of a person with dementia. The simulation cast her as an older adult in the grips of delusion: frozen in fear at the end of a hallway, watching the floor disappear beneath rising water.
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3 weeks ago | 
phys.org | Daniel Carrasco |Jonathan D. Tonkin |Sadie Harley |Alexander Pol
Seasonality shapes much of life on Earth. Most species, including humans, have synchronized their own rhythms with those of the Earth's seasons.
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3 weeks ago | 
phys.org | Yi Chung |Jonathan Rhodes |Sadie Harley |Alexander Pol
Imagine replanting various native species only to have them die because the area is too hot or too dry. Or reconnecting woodland habitat only to lose large tracts to bushfire. Well, our new research suggests those scenarios are entirely possible.
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3 weeks ago | 
phys.org | Sara Webb |Sadie Harley |Alexander Pol
What goes up must come down, and earlier this week yet another of SpaceX's Starships, the biggest and most powerful type of rocket ever built, came back down to Earth in spectacular fashion. In the sky above the Indian Ocean, it exploded.
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4 weeks ago | 
medicalxpress.com | John La Marca |Sarah T. Diepstraten |Sadie Harley |Alexander Pol
Beloved Australian actor, Magda Szubanski, has revealed she's been diagnosed with a "very rare, very aggressive, very serious" blood cancer called mantle cell lymphoma. In a post on social media on Thursday, Szubanski said she would be starting treatment in a few weeks for the stage 4 cancer, which she called "one of the nasty ones, unfortunately."So, what is mantle cell lymphoma? And how is it treated? What is mantle cell lymphoma?
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4 weeks ago | 
phys.org | Corinne Purtill |Sadie Harley |Alexander Pol
As hot, dry and disastrous as the last few years have been, it appears that the chaos caused by a warming planet is just getting started.
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4 weeks ago | 
techxplore.com | Kate Talerico |Sadie Harley |Alexander Pol
When Google made its $1 billion pledge to address the Bay Area's housing shortage in 2019, the plan hinged on the company expanding its office presence in Silicon Valley. The majority of the housing pledge wasn't cash—though there was some of that—but land.
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4 weeks ago | 
techxplore.com | Zena Assaad |Sadie Harley |Alexander Pol
Google recently unveiled the next phase of its artificial intelligence (AI) journey: "AI mode". This new feature will soon be released as a new option to users of Google's search engine in the United States, with no timeline yet for the rest of the world. The company says it will be akin to having a conversation with an expert well versed on a wide range of topics. This is just one of many steps Google is taking in pursuit of its "all-in" approach to AI.
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4 weeks ago | 
medicalxpress.com | Sadie Harley |Alexander Pol
Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the U.S. More than 6 million adults are treated for it each year, says Dr. Michael Colgan, a Mayo Clinic Health System dermatologist in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Melanoma is an aggressive form of skin cancer. In 2025, an estimated 104,960 cases of invasive melanoma will be diagnosed in the U.S., and an estimated 8,430 people will die of melanoma, according to the American Cancer Society.
