The Conversation

By Armin Sorooshian The waves of U.S. and Israeli bomb strikes in Tehran and Beirut, and Iran’s missile and drone attacks on neighboring countries in response, are damaging more than …

By Jonathan Graffam-O’Meara Every Melburnian knows the West Gate Bridge, crossing the Yarra River north of its exit to Port Phillip Bay. It looms, it hums, it holds memory, it …

By Jennifer Loewen, Barbara Fornssler, Colleen Dell, and Maryellen Gibson Opioid-class drugs are commonly prescribed as powerful pain medications in both humans and animals, though they can also be accessed …

By Wenge Xu Self-driving cars are very much a reality and no longer a vision from science fiction. In the UK, automated vehicles (AVs) such as self-driving shuttles are already …

By Vikram Niranjan When e-cigarettes first appeared around 2010, they were hailed as a breakthrough: nicotine delivery without the toxic tar and combustion byproducts of traditional cigarettes. Public health bodies …

By Brodie Ramin You are driving fast, maybe too fast, on a highway at night. Maybe it’s snowing, or raining, or your eyes are glazing over as you feel the… …

By Atieh Razavi Yekta, and Christopher McLeod Around 60 per cent of Canadian employees can expect their job to be transformed through artificial intelligence (AI). For many, AI will complement,… …

By Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon Eight months before the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting, OpenAI knew something was wrong. The company’s automated review system had flagged Jesse Van Rootselaar’s ChatGPT account for interactions… …

By Yaw Agyeman Boafo Ghana’s cities are expanding at a breathtaking pace. From Madina to Cape Coast, from Sekondi-Takoradi to Tamale, concrete infrastructure are rising, wetlands are shrinking, and open …