At least 11 auto manufacturers, including Toyota, Audi and Tesla, are putting driverless car plans in motion. With soon-to-be robot drivers comes the need to program ethics in them. Think, a situation like the trolley dilemma, where a driver must choose ...

When now-Prime Minster Scott Morrison brought a lump of coal into parliament in 2017, pleading "don’t be afraid, don’t be scared, it won’t hurt you," he made a critical error. That is, assuming he wants the Coalition to retain power at ...

If cleanliness is next to godliness, according to a new study, additionally, orderliness is next to academic success. Taking showers and eating meals at standard intervals could enhance your GPA, the Journal of the Royal Society Interface research suggests. Though the results ...

Don't get entranced by dazzling headlines: overall, Australian university graduates are still limping towards meaningful employment. "New graduates are still less likely to get a full-time job than a decade ago..." a new Grattan report provides. Mapping Australian higher education ...

Despite Hollywood's (increasing) portrayal of brilliantly successful autistic savants - from Rain Man to The Good Doctor - the reality of employment for those with autism is the opposite. ABS data suggests just 40 per cent of people with autism work, compared to 83 ...

Front-line victims of the replication crisis have been identified by New Zealand and American scientists: studies themselves. Colin Camerer, Brian Nosek and their colleagues from Massey University, America's Center for Open Science, and Caltech, attempted to reproduce the findings of 21 social science ...

Single Mensa society members may reconsider bragging about it. A new University of Western Australia study has shown that although people prioritise intelligence in a mate, there's such a thing as being too intelligent to want to pair with. The same ...

We need to talk about Kevin. Kevin Khatchadourian is a 15-year-old boy who committed a massacre at his high school and killed his father and sister. Growing up, he exhibited early signs of psychopathy: chronic unrest during infancy, failure to bond ...

School's out for summer School's out forever For an increasing number of Australian high schoolers, Alice Cooper's lyrics resonate. They especially do so with 15-year-olds from lower SES backgrounds, according to a new ACER report. The report, based on PISA data, collated ...

If I were to tell you I could detect your personality and rate your attractiveness based solely on a head shot, would you believe me? Probably not. Would you believe an AI could do those things? Maybe, but you shouldn't, cautioned ...