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Muneera Bano, CSIRO and Didar Zowghi, CSIRO August 20, 2026 In the United States, leading HR software company Workday is currently facing a lawsuit over its use of job screening tools powered by AI which allegedly discriminated against applicants based on factors such as age, disability and race. The company, The post AI bias isn’t just an error in the algorithm. It’s a chain of human decisions…
Jongkil Jay Jeong, The University of Melbourne; RMIT University; Deakin University August 19, 2026 Imagine your team has been tasked to deliver a high-stakes policy paper under intense time pressure. Everyone turns to generative artificial intelligence (AI) and within minutes, it delivers a full draft complete with structured arguments and The post Offloading work tasks to AI comes with a cost –…
Becky Freeman, University of Sydney; Christina Watts, University of Sydney, and Sam Egger, University of Sydney August 19, 2026 One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has called for a 75% cut to the tobacco tax and a freeze on any price indexation of the tax for three years. Hanson said this The post One Nation wants to cut the tobacco tax. Would that curb the illicit cigarette market? first appeared on…
Joshua Pate, University of Technology Sydney August 18, 2026 Why does my back crack? It sounds like such a simple question. But the more I think about it, the more fascinating it gets. Imagine you have been sitting at your desk for hours. You lean back, twist a little and The post Your back cracked, but what does the sound mean? A physio explains first appeared on The-14 .
By Kody Ferron, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Yellowknifer August 18, 2026 Everything in Yellowknife is more expensive than in July 2025, according to Statistics Canada. According to the July consumer price index (CPI) report released on Aug, 17, inflation on the basket of good analyzed rose by 3.4 per cent from The post Inflation tracks at 3.4 per cent in Yellowknife for second…
Allen Cheng, Monash University August 17, 2026 Bird flu is circulating among birds on the Australian mainland. So with the confirmed number of detections growing, you may be wondering about the risk of birds infecting humans. So far in 2026, no humans in Australia have been diagnosed with the currently The post Is bird flu infecting humans? How would we know? first appeared on The-14 .
Jack Janetzki, Adelaide University and Lisa Kalisch Ellett, Adelaide University August 17, 2026 A new medicine for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has just entered the treatment toolbox: centanafadine, a once-a-day tablet sold under the brand name Simtriyo. It has been approved in the United States for adults and children aged The post A new ADHD drug targets three brain chemicals…
Evangeline Mantzioris, Adelaide University August 17, 2026 From the first hint of cold winter mornings, supermarkets and pharmacies begin heavy marketing to coax us to stock up on vitamin C to get through the cold and flu season. But where did that idea come from? As we’ll see, it’s a The post Can vitamin C cure a cold? How a Nobel Prize winner convinced us it could first appeared on The-14 .
Kevin J. Munro, University of Manchester; Adele Goman, University of Leeds, and Gabrielle Saunders, University of Manchester August 16, 2026 Before breakfast, you may already have checked your sleep score, resting heart rate or blood oxygen level. By bedtime, you might look at your step count, stress score or even The post Eight in ten adults track their own health – new survey first appeared on…
Paul Hunter, University of East Anglia August 16, 2026 The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended prioritising the Ervebo vaccine for testing in a clinical trial in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The vaccine was originally developed to protect against Zaire ebolavirus, the species responsible for the devastating west The post Can a vaccine built for one Ebola virus stop another?…
