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Don’t page Dr. Bing
Open Forum | October 14, 2024Patients shouldn’t rely on AI powered search engines and chatbots to always give them accurate and safe information on drugs, according to researchers in the journal BMJ Quality & Safety.
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Friends for life
Open Forum | October 14, 2024In news that should surprise no-one, scientists have found that peer acceptance in young teenagers, and close friendships in older teenagers, predict low social anxiety and high life satisfaction in young adults.
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Eve of destruction
Open Forum | October 14, 2024An international team of scientists warns the Earth is entering a critical and unpredictable new phase of the climate crisis.
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Do Australians really care about climate change?
Open Forum | October 13, 2024An annual climate action survey has revealed public concern over the Great Barrier Reef and nuclear power but Australians affected by the cost-of-living crisis seem less enthusiastic about radical climate change action.
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Nerve pain game enters clinical trials
Open Forum | October 13, 2024Sydney Researchers have developed a game-like way of helping users with chronic pain manage their discomfort.
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Unknown unknowns
Open Forum | October 12, 2024New experimental data support the idea that people tend to assume the information they have is adequate to comprehend a given situation, without considering that they might be lacking key information.
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AI to the rescue
Open Forum | October 12, 2024The concept of an AI chat bot delivering postcode-specific disaster information developed by psychology postgraduate students at James Cook University won the 2024 Disaster Challenge.
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Boosting indigenous employment
Open Forum | October 11, 2024A new study from the Australian National University has found that Indigenous-owned businesses in Australia employ Indigenous staff at a rate 12 times higher than non-Indigenous-owned firms.
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Slippery slope
Samuel Cornell | October 11, 2024Social media posts of risky escapades at spectacular locations are still encouraging a stampede of copycats with sometimes disastrous results.
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Securing security in the Pacific
Blake Johnson | October 11, 2024It’s time for the Pacific to talk about ground rules in the security sector.
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The flight from China
Zhuowen Li | October 10, 2024The current flight of foreign capital investment in China is a sign of changing geopolitical and economic realities and will further weaken the Chinese economy in the long term.
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Juice it up
Per Henningsgaard | October 10, 2024Tim Winton’s first novel in 6 years is set hundreds of years in the future when climate change has rendered large parts of the globe uninhabitable.
