Society

Forget anti-ageing creams and miracle cures, scientists have discovered the real secret to turning back time.

NASA’s Suni Williams — one of two astronauts stuck for months at the International Space Station — has retired.

Britain's ministers are consulting on implementing an Australian-style social media ban for under-16s in the UK.

‘I’ve seen many of my relatives lose their lives to this terrible disease. I want that to stop with us.’

After years of calling out ‘Karens’, internet culture has decided it’s time for a new name to label entitled or dramatic behaviour.

2016 is a maximalist state of mind the internet is desperately trying to manifest back into existence, but why?

Australia’s internet regulator has launched a second investigation into Elon Musk’s X and AI chatbot Grok after a surge of non-consensual generated sexualised images flooding the social media site. 

Merge Labs, a company co-founded by AI billionaire Sam Altman that is building devices to connect human brains to computers, has raised $US252 million ($367m).

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The latest AI technology has solved an equation no human mathematician has been able to do. But some experts say the AI’s solution was not very different from earlier work done by humans.

X has tightened controls on its Grok chatbot after backlash over claims it generated sexualised and non-consensual images of real people, including minors.

AARON PATRICK: Thanks to China’s one-child policy, the country now has approximately 30 million ‘surplus men’.

Cashed-up tourists looking for an out-of-this-world adventure are set have a whole new destination to add to their bucket list.

SpaceX, along with NASA, is returning a crew of four astronauts from the International Space Station after one of them experienced an unspecified medical issue. 

‘I loved this life, and I’m grateful for the time.’

THE NEW YORK TIMES: In the billion-dollar race to commercialise psychedelic medicine, psilocybin, a naturally occurring hallucinogen better known as magic mushrooms has decisively pulled ahead of the pack.