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Tasmanian film and TV have had a stellar decade. So why is the state gutting its local screen body?
With huge successes such as The Nightingale and Deadloch, Tasmania’s creatives have built a screen industry worth protecting.
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Listening to the bush: How AI can help NZ rid its wildnerness of ‘hold-out’ pest possums
AI listening devices could help find New Zealand’s last remaining possums – but only if they don’t mistake bird calls for pests. Here’s how a new fix works.
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Is Gad Saad is building a culture-war hero persona by distorting Canadian reality?
Some Canadians may agree with Gad Saad’s portrayal of Canada a leftist, woke hellscape. But many don’t, making him a highly unreliable narrator on Canada as he moves to the U.S.
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Data centres and democratic decline could lead to more water conflict in the future
To protect our planet’s waters, we need to better understand these new economic and technological factors that underlie disputes over water.
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The best time to think about your pension is before you need one
Retirement may feel distant in your 20s and 30s, but small, deliberate steps now can make a difference later.
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Alberta wants neutrality in classrooms, but what if ‘viewpoints’ are lived experience?
Difficult stories are not obstacles to democratic education. Learning how to communicate about them are conditions for it.
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The midlife clock is ticking: How we understand ‘time left’ can help us use it well
Heightened awareness of having limited time left in life can spur people to become masters of their lime, or leave them feeling stuck or stifled with anxiety.
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First bird flu death in an Australian mainland mammal is a grim milestone. We know how bad this can get
The Beachport seal is one animal – for now. But this virus has already shown us what can happen next. Australia should use that warning while we still have time.
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Air traffic control is becoming more automated. Is regulation keeping up?
Automation is expected to make air traffic controllers’ jobs a bit easier. But instead it could add more work and lead to more mistakes being made.
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DR Congo’s riverboat economy – how a floating transport system tells the country’s story
Baleinières, handmade wooden cargo ships, are floating microcosms of life in the DR Congo.
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Meet Loui Ridi, the Palestinian American in West Bank home besieged by ‘terrorist’ Israeli settlers
Democracy Now! ANJALI KAMAT: This is Democracy Now!, I’m Anjali Kamat. We turn to the occupied West Bank, where Israeli settlers are continuing to lay siege on homes in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus. The siege has attracted international attention, in part because one of the homes is owned by a Palestinian American.
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Using thunderquakes to X-ray Earth – a new study shows urban seismology in action
With the help of thunderstorms and everyday fiber-optic cables, these scientists are revealing a hidden world underground.