A time warp, a chicken, then nothing

One of the ABC's darkest days kicked off a digital revolution within the national broadcaster that is almost complete. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

Porsche-backed HIF Global wants to build an e-fuel plant in north-west Tasmania

Porsche wants 80 per cent of its cars to be electric by the end of the decade, and is developing a synthetic fuel to power those that will still run on liquid fuels. So what are e-fuels and why choose Tasmania as the site to make them? | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

Heart attack treatment using funnel-web spider venom one step closer to trial

A drug being developed using venom from the world's deadliest spider to prevent damage caused by a heart attack or stroke will progress to clinical trials. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

'The man from Microsoft' and other scams

Scammers stole more than $2 billion from Australians last year — more than double the amount from 2020. Here's why losses from scams are going up so fast. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

Tasmanian 'book detective' reunites customers with long-lost books

Toby Wools-Cobb uses investigative skills from his career as a librarian and the archaeological expertise from his studies in Egyptology to find copies of long-lost titles. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

Bluey composer Joff Bush on making music magic

Do you ever get the Bluey theme song stuck in your head? Joff Bush is the person to blame. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

Ford provides loan to Liontown Resources to develop Kathleen Valley lithium mine

ASX-listed Liontown Resources signs a deal with US motoring giant Ford to develop a $545 million lithium mine to supply the metal used in electric vehicle batteries. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

Indian police arrest two men accused of decapitating Hindu man on camera

Authorities in the western city of Udaipur shut down the internet and restrict gatherings after the gory video of the attack was posted online, drawing huge numbers of viewers. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

Chlorine gas leak kills 10 injures 251 more after storage tank falls onto a ship

A storage tank falls from a crane and slams into the deck of a ship docked at Aqaba port, releasing a cloud of yellow chlorine gas. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

Boeing 737-MAX “D-grade aircraft”

Reports from flight crews show Boeing's 737 MAX aircraft was involved in six mid-air emergencies in the US in the year after it was cleared to return to the skies following two fatal crashes. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

Why the crypto crash could hit stocks

As central banks rein in the cash and hike interest rates, the appetite for risk is evaporating. That's created a full-scale crisis within the crypto world, writes Ian Verrender. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

Oldest known evidence of Aboriginal settlement in arid Australia found

A man getting out of the car to go to the toilet leads to the discovery of one of the most important sites in Australian prehistory — a rock shelter in the Flinders Ranges showing Aboriginal Australians settled the arid interior of the country 10,000 years earlier than previously … | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

Researchers demystify ancient Aboriginal migration across Australia (2021)

At a time when rhino-sized wombats, giant echidnas and carnivorous kangaroos roamed the country, Aboriginal Australians were just starting to migrate across vast 'super-highways', new research has revealed. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

Australian company creates first Quantum Circuit

A landmark new discovery in the field of quantum computing could be key to designing things we've never made before. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

In a unanimous decision, Twitter's board says it has advised its shareholders to approve the proposed $63 billion sale of the company to billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

Reminder of why blocking ads is a security practice

In the 25 years Helen Cahill has kept the books for her small business, she's never had any trouble doing online banking. Until last month. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

Nanoparticles that control flow of light could mean faster and cheaper internet

Researchers have developed tiny translucent slides capable of producing two distinct images at the same time when viewed from opposite sides. How is this possible — and what are the implications? | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

Drone planting 40k tree pods a day in Australian Botanic Garden at Mt Annan

Giant drones are the latest weapon in an ongoing "war" against the introduced African Olive tree in southern Sydney. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

Britain Orders Extradition of Julian Assange to United States

The British government orders the extradition of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the United States, but WikiLeaks says it will appeal against the ruling. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

Sri Lanka on verge of 'humanitarian emergency', with hundreds going to Australia

More than 300 Sri Lankans have tried to get to Australia in the past few weeks as the country's economic crisis has worsened, with people smugglers claiming those on board will be allowed into the country under the new Labor government. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

Alexei Navalny reportedly moved to high-security prison in Russia

Supporters of Alexei Navalny fear Russia's most prominent opposition leader has been moved to one of the country's most notorious prisons, a high-security penal colony infamous for the abuse and torture of inmates. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

Bitcoin company TDI eyeing off old lead and zinc mine on Tasmania's west coast

An old lead and zinc mine on the west coast of Tasmania could become home to "Australia's largest emerging, 100 per cent renewable energy bitcoin mine". | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

Google engineer claims AI technology LaMDA is sentient

Google has a book-reading, meditating "chatbot" that is sentient, according to one of its engineers. But the tech giant says there is "no evidence" of that. Here is what we know so far. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

Micrometeoroid Strikes NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

A tiny meteoroid struck the newly deployed James Webb Space Telescope in May, knocking one of its gold-plated mirrors out of alignment but not changing the orbiting observatory's schedule to become fully operational shortly, according to NASA. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

Airbnb sued by ACCC for allegedly misleading customers about $AUD vs. $USD

Australia's competition regulator is suing Airbnb for allegedly misleading consumers on pricing for accommodation. The ACCC said 2000 people made complaints to Airbnb about the conduct and there were numerous complaints on social media.  | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

Covid vaccines can be updated for new variants. So, where's my Omicron booster?

New mRNA vaccines promised COVID shots that could be swiftly tailored and manufactured when new variants popped up. So, why haven't we come up with one for Omicron? | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

Google ordered to pay John Barilaro $715,000 over 'vulgar' YouTube videos

Former NSW deputy premier John Barilaro will receive a payout after he sued the tech giant for failing to remove defamatory videos on him on YouTube. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

World's largest plant, Seagrass Meadows, discovered in Western Australia

Genetic tests have revealed that a seagrass meadow in WA's Shark Bay is actually a giant clone of itself, and is estimated to be at least 4,500 years old. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

How the seeds of the [Australian] 2022 election result were sown years ago

Some of the key voting trends in 2022 were already brewing in 2019. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

JBS Foods cyber attack highlights industry vulnerabilities to Russian hackers

The head of a national cybersecurity firm warns it's not a matter of "if" but "when" major supermarkets or distributors are targeted by Russia-backed hackers, risking shortages on grocery store shelves. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

Robots filling gaps in Singapore's workforce after Covid-19 disruptions

After struggling to find staff during the pandemic, businesses in Singapore are increasingly turning to robots. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

The 'SlumDoge Millionaire'

Crypto has made some investors overnight millionaires but for others it's a fad propped up by celebrity endorsements. Four Corners investigated the hype.  | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

Abrolhos coral found nowhere else but WA in hot demand for aquariums

The Basile family diversified their crayfishing business a decade ago to become coral farmers at the Abrolhos Islands. The punt has paid off. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

GPT-3: You've probably read its work without realising it's an AI

You may not have heard of GPT-3, but there's a good chance you've read its work, used a website that runs its code, or even conversed with it through a chatbot or a character in a game. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

Can history be used to predict the future? Some experts say it can

Academic arguments about whether the past can predict the future are as cyclical as the so-called circles of history they debate. But what then is the value of history?  | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

Who is helping Elon Musk fund his $61.4B takeover of Twitter?

The Tesla CEO announces he's putting more of his own money into purchasing the social media giant — but he's not alone in footing the mammoth bill. Here's who else is helping fund his takeover. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

Australia Votes – How Labor Won (interactive data vis)

The Australian people have spoken, and the big winners are Labor and the 'teal' independents. So how did it all unfold? | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

Australia Votes – Win for Anthony Albanese is the most transformative election

It is the end of the Morrison Government in an election which — while it might not have resulted in a landslide for the Opposition — has seen the conservative party decimated and shattered, writes Laura Tingle. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

Australia Liberal/National government voted out

Scott Morrison has called Anthony Albanese to concede defeat as Labor and the independents make gains on the Coalition. Follow live. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

The fight to take back Hawaii

For over a century, the destiny of this island paradise has been in the hands of outsiders. Now locals are fighting to reclaim it. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

Employee monitoring software became the new normal during Covid-19

The pandemic and working from home normalised employee surveillance software. Now, as workers return to the office, employers say the monitoring tools are here to stay. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 1 year ago

So what happens if Putin loses?

An apparently weakening Russia and moves by the US to shift billions of dollars in aid to Ukraine are signs of major shifts in the war in Ukraine. But what does it mean and what should the West do next? Mick Ryan explains. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 2 years ago

Environmental impact statement released for Sun Cable's $30bn AUD solar project

An environmental impact assessment shows Sun Cable's proposed $30 billion project would result in significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions, but could also cause some potentially negative impacts. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 2 years ago

High Court to decide if search engine giant Google is a publisher of content

The High Court will today hear arguments about whether Google is a publisher of content or simply a search tool. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 2 years ago

BSE ban for blood donations from UK residents lifted in Australia by TGA

People currently barred from donating blood in Australia will soon be able to roll up their sleeves after the TGA approved Red Cross Lifeblood to receive donations from people who lived in the UK between 1980 and 1996 and may have been affected with mad cow disease. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 2 years ago

How relevant is Twitter to most people?

There are more than 1.3 billion Twitter accounts, but only 192 million of them are daily active users – so who is Elon Musk buying Twitter for? | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 2 years ago

Uber faces $26M (AUD) fine after admitting to misleading Australian customers

Uber has admitted that it engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct in regards to the trip cancellation warnings on its ride-sharing app. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 2 years ago

Trivago fined $45M for misleading customers on hotel pricing claims

Global hotel booking giant Trivago is fined $45 million for misleading customers with advertising that claimed it made it easy to find "the best price" for rooms. | Continue reading


@abc.net.au | 2 years ago