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‘We are trying to catch up, it is a race against the clock.’

For many people, the past month has brought unpleasant echoes of COVID: Mysterious deaths aboard a cruise ship, a virus that causes a deadly respiratory illness and talk of forced quarantines. 

Australia is set to play a pivotal role in the future of space exploration, according to the nation’s first ever qualified astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg.

There has still been no enforcement action from Australia’s under-16s social media ban despite one app allowing young people to retry their age verification 24 times in a day. 

KATHERINE BENNELL-PEGG: If we can harness that ambition and desire for exploration, in our young people and across our industries, then we can shape a positive future for all Australians. 

When researcher Nicholas Tiller began to feed health questions into chatbots as a test, he expected some imperfections — but not this level of failure.

Doctors are sounding the alarm as the disease is ‘driven by factors that we don’t yet understand.’

Experts say young people could be actively defying the warnings about sun exposure — after all, many grew up hearing them from parents, doctors, and in some cases, school programs. 

WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus ‌says a delay in ‌detecting ⁠Ebola cases means responders are ‘playing ​catch-up’.

More than ‌900 ‌suspected Ebola cases and 119 ‌deaths ⁠have now been ​recorded ⁠in the Democratic ‌Republic ​of the ​Congo as the virus spreads.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Can taking antihistamine and heartburn drugs together really relieve pain, brain fog and other health issues?

THE NEW YORK TIMES: A central claim about this popular longevity supplement isn’t as straightforward as influencers make it out to be.

The outbreak is ‘spreading rapidly’ in eastern Congo, with fears that it is much larger than initial figures suggested. Here’s what you need to know.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The Trump administration said it would impose new entry restrictions for some US citizens as the Ebola outbreak intensifies.

Trillions of dollars of investment into the AI boom will lift inflation and wide the gap between winners and losers in a structural shift in share market returns.