An armed man at a gathering of the website’s volunteers is just the latest reminder: Editing the internet’s encyclopedia has never been riskier.

Long before the shocking killings in Sydney, the threat of antisemitic violence was often left unchallenged. That must change

The complicated story of James Watson, whose landmark DNA discovery with Francis Crick was later overshadowed by his deeply offensive remarks

A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors

Twenty years after the first face transplant, patients are dying, data is missing, and the experimental procedure’s future hangs in the balance

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Michael and Mary Shelley were glamorous Sydney socialites, who became Christian fanatics and kidnappers. Three of their children - Steven, John and Hannah - were secretly placed into foster care with my parents, Lenore and Tom Blaine. The Shelleys were apocalyptically irritated to discover that the children of God had been fostered by working-class Queensland…

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

Light-hearted note, penned on 15 August 1916, was found on Wharton beach, after severe winter storms washed away sand dunes

Their quest captured the imagination of the colony and became part of Australia’s foundation narrative. But it was a debacle led by an eccentric man with a poor sense of direction

Those who predict that superintelligence will destroy humanity serve the same interests as those who believe that it will solve all of our problems.

Some thoughts about how to schedule online meetings for a global organisation in an equitable way.

his focus to that once he’s home.

His main takeaway from his adventures is how people along the way have treated him. He said he hopes to pay it forward in the ways he can.

“The world will wrap itself around you and help you achieve things and keep you moving,” he said. “It’s been absolutely astounding.”

The cosmic traveller flying at 61km/s and steaming with gaseous cyanide is only the third object we’ve detected in our solar system that came from another star. And one Harvard professor believes it may be an alien spacecraft with malicious intent.

Dr. Richard Harris, aka ‘Dr. Harry,’ and the Wetmules made the first reported hydrogen (H2) rebreather dive to a depth of 230m/751 ft, in The Pearse Resurgence, New Zealand.

Moving the capital is an old idea and a perennial nonstarter.