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The Nightly Live: Breakfast with Katherine Bennell-Pegg.

Australia’s space future: We must be daring

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. 

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14 per cent of those studied said they would not see a physician, opting to use a chatbot instead.

Using an AI chatbot for medical advice? Read this first

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

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Calls for early-onset bowel cancer to be considered ‘new disease’ as cases surge among young Aussies

The aggressive ‘new cancer’ killing young Australians

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

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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. 

Gen Z know the risks of tanning, but they’re doing it anyway

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. 

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Health authorities in Uganda have reported two more suspected cases of Ebola.

Ebola crisis worsens as WHO issues fresh warning

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

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An outbreak of a rare strain of Ebola continues to spread in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Ebola cases spread as hospitals plagued by attacks

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

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Can taking drugs like Allegra and Pepcid AC together really relieve pain, brain fog and other health issues?

Why women are trying allergy drugs for period relief

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

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A tray of supplements. A central claim about NAD+ isn’t as straightforward as influencers make it out to be.

Research upends argument for popular antiaging supplement

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

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An Ebola virus outbreak centered in Congo is suspected to have caused over 170 deaths and about 750 infections, according to the World Health Organization.

What to know about Ebola outbreak as virus ‘spreads rapidly’

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.

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The Trump administration said Thursday that it would impose new entry restrictions for US citizens who have recently been in Congo, Uganda or South Sudan, citing the Ebola outbreak in the region.

‘Enhanced health measures’ imposed as Ebola outbreak rages

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

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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, according to professional investors. 

AI spending explosion fuelling inflation, record stock gains

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.

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FILE — A pigeon, likely expecting food, pokes its head inside the home of Tina Piña Trachtenberg, known as Mother Pigeon, in Brooklyn, April 22, 2025. A new study leads scientists to wonder whether people set out to domesticate pigeons or the process occurred naturally as pigeons “colonized” human environments. (Angelina Katsanis/The New York Times)

Pigeons and humans have a longer history than you think

People did not always look down their noses at pigeons. Over the centuries, the domesticated birds played important roles as sources of food and fertiliser, as messengers and even as beloved companions.

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On Thursday, SpaceX filed its prospectus ahead of a Wall Street listing on a valuation reportedly up to $US1.75 trillion.

Musk’s genius and SpaceX’s science meet valuation doubts

TOM RICHARDSON: The SpaceX IPO will test the ability of Elon Musk to win renewed investor support for his ability to deliver grand visions that advance humanity.

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X Corp has been fined $650,000 three years after contravening Australian safety regulations. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

X handed whopping fine after child sex abuse material case

A tech giant has admitted it failed to comply with Australian regulations, three years after it was first notified of the issue.

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Google is dethroning OpenAI as the king of consumer AI.

Google is dethroning OpenAI as the king of consumer AI

Its users are burning through quadrillions of tokens a month, costing the company computing power and money.

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