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The Royals Tend To Live 3 Decades Longer Than Regular Folk & Here’s Why
In the U.K. it is customary to receive a personalized message from the queen on your 100th birthday – such is the relative rarity of reaching the milestone. Prince Philip was just a couple months off, dying at the age of 99 years and 10 months on April 9, 2021. The last notable royal…
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Neuralink’s Monkey Can Play Pong With Its Mind & Just Imagine What Humans could Do
Some weeks ago, a nine-year-old macaque monkey called Pager successfully played a game of Pong with its mind. While it may sound like science fiction, the demonstration by Elon Musk’s neurotechnology company Neuralink is an example of a brain-machine interface in action (and has been done before). A coin-sized disc called a “Link” was…
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Less Than Half of Australian Adults Know How to Identify Misinformation Online
For most of us, it’s hard to imagine a media-free day. Understanding what’s happening in the world, maintaining our social media profiles, staying in touch with family, being entertained, making new friends, engaging with governments, and with our democracy, are all activities that usually require media participation. To do these activities regularly and effectively, we…
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How Did the First Person Evolve?
We know humans haven’t always been around. After all, we wouldn’t have survived alongside meat-eating dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex. How the first person came about – and who their ancestors were (their grandparents, great-grandparents and so on) – is one of the biggest questions archaeologists have. Even today, it puzzles us. When all living things…