Australasian Science

May 4, 2023 | australasianscience.com.au | Scarlett Howard

May 3, 2023 | australasianscience.com.au | Michelle Langley

Apr 18, 2023 | australasianscience.com.au | Noor Gillani

Will AI ever reach human-level intelligence? We asked 5 experts By Noor Gillani, Technology Editor ShutterstockArtificial intelligence has changed form in recent years. What started in the public eye as a burgeoning field with promising (yet largely benign) applications, has snowballed into a more than US$100 billion industry where the heavy hitters – Microsoft, Google and OpenAI, to name a few – seem intent on out-competing one another.

Apr 18, 2023 | australasianscience.com.au | Maximilian Dröllner

We found out when the Nullarbor Plain dried out, splitting Australia's ecosystems in half By Maximilian Dröllner, Research associate, Curtin University Australia’s western and eastern ecosystems are biodiversity hotspots, separated by a dry desert interior. Yet millions of years ago, many species roamed more freely between connected habitats across the continent.

Apr 14, 2023 | australasianscience.com.au | Nicole Boivin

Research reveals a 3,500-year history of dairy consumption on the Tibetan Plateau By Nicole Boivin, Professor, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History It’s not called the Third Pole for nothing. The Tibetan Plateau forms the major portion of a vast upland area of ice and glaciers that covers some 100,000 square kilometres of Earth’s surface. It is a cold, arid and unforgiving landscape that couldn’t be more different from the warm plains and valleys that gave rise to our species.