2,903 articles from APRIL 2023

Australia aimed for, and got, more Stem graduates. So where are the jobs for them? | Jessica Rozen

When it comes to employment, science and technology graduates fare only slightly better than ‘starving artists’Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastWe’ve experimented with a bunch of naff names here in Australia. In the 1990s, Bob Hawke wanted us to become the clever country. Two decades later, Malcolm Turnbull aspired to make us an innovation...

New artificial intelligence tool can accurately identify cancer

Exclusive: algorithm performs more efficiently and effectively than current methods, according to a studyDoctors, scientists and researchers have built an artificial intelligence model that can accurately identify cancer in a development they say could speed up diagnosis of the disease and fast-track patients to treatment.Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide. It results in about 10 million...

A supermassive black hole and its jet, all in a single picture

In May 2022, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team released the first-ever radio image of M87's central black hole. It was a stunning revelation based on observations made using a worldwide array of radio telescopes. Recently, they re-released a newer, sharper image of the black hole's "ring of light."