1+ hour, 28+ min ago   (665+ words) Some lecturers have even expressed fears that students have been “lobotomised by AI” amid reports that AI-detection tools are patchy and far from foolproof. Last week, New South Wales moved to ban take-home assignments for Year 12 to try to stop…...

4+ week, 2+ hour ago   (720+ words) In May 2026, OpenAI released a new math result that sent shock waves throughout the world of mathematical research. A major unsolved problem called the “unit distance conjecture” had just been resolved by generative AI. Since then, there has been a…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (573+ words) Artificial intelligence (AI) has crossed a threshold in the modern workplace. It is being used for everything from helping employees manage schedules to supporting financial forecasts. A similar shift is now unfolding inside research laboratories. There is currently a boom…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (581+ words) Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly learning to autonomously design and run biological experiments, but the systems intended to govern those capabilities are struggling to keep pace. This is programmable biology: designing biological components on a computer and building them in…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (565+ words) Have you ever had the experience of rereading a sentence multiple times only to realise you still don’t understand it? As taught to scores of incoming college freshmen, when you realise you’re spinning your wheels, it’s time to change your…...

7+ mon, 4+ day ago   (863+ words) Now, with generative AI disruptions, we are seeing a similar desire to cling to an idealised vision of the modern university. AI has unsettled long-established forms of assessment, simultaneously instigating a return to older assessment models in the interest of…...