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Your brain waves are up for sale – a new law wants to change that

Supporters of the bill expressed their concern that neural data could be used to decode a person’s thoughts and feelings or to learn sensitive facts about an individual’s mental health, such as whether someone has epilepsy.

18/04/2024

Bill shock means home batteries make financial sense, despite expense

A quarter of a million households now have home batteries to store the electricity their rooftop solar generates and help them avoid sky-high power bills.

15/04/2024

Psychedelics and trauma: How one survivor of festival terror attack ‘felt no fear’

For a group of Israeli researchers, the attack on the music festival has created a rare opportunity to study the intersection of trauma and psychedelics.

12/04/2024

Sitting down in Singapore to the bizarro world of lab-grown meat

For a few hundred bucks a head, Singapore diners will get an exclusive seven-course menu featuring cultivated meat concocted in Australia.

12/04/2024

Now hiring: Part-time AI chatbot tutors, no experience necessary

The boom in AI technology has put a more sophisticated spin on a kind of gig work that doesn’t require leaving the house.

12/04/2024

Done right, the future is more than just wind turbines and solar fields

There are political and economic risks in pumping public money into new tech, but the payoffs are potentially vast for new and old industries alike.

12/04/2024

Island as energy ecosystem: Mallorca leads the charge on green hydrogen

From Jules Verne to Christopher Skase, Rafael Nadal’s native Mallorca has long had a powerful pull on the rich and famous. Now its natural assets of sun and sea are fuelling power itself.

25/07/2023

How 35 kilometres of pipe helped Opera House win a 6-star green rating

Architect Jorn Utzon included plans for a state-of-the art heating and cooling system using seawater, which became crucial to the building earning the highest possible environmental certification.

17/05/2023

Healing seagrass ‘scars’ to make Sydney Harbour cleaner and clearer

The world’s biggest harbour restoration project is focusing on an ancient, self-cloning species of seagrass.

24/04/2023

‘Totally pristine’: Researchers discover new coral reef in the Galapagos

Until now, scientists believed the only Galapagos reef to survive El Nino weather in 1982 and 1983 was Wellington reef, along the coast of Darwin Island.

19/04/2023

‘Marriage made in heaven’: Awnings that shade car parks can power cars

Solar awnings over car parks that are becoming compulsory in France and are under consideration in California could save emissions, water and lives in Australia.

18/02/2023

Spain to make Big Tobacco pay for cigarette butt cleaning

The rules, which come into force on Friday, were approved as part of a law banning single-use plastics such as cutlery and straws.

04/01/2023

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