Kate Smith-Miles receives funding from the Australian Research Council as a Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellow, and as a Chief Investigator in the Australian Centre of Excellence in ...

Industries, particularly high tech, may be waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court decision, expected this coming spring, in the Bilski case to decide some fundamental questions of when you can patent ...

IN AN ideal world the data on which a scientific study is based should be, if not publicly available, then at least available to other researchers with a legitimate interest in asking. Sadly, this is ...

As a developmental disorder, autism spectrum disorders (ASD) can be diagnosed as early as 18 to 24 months of age, but often the diagnosis does not come until a child is four years old. This is due to ...

Facial-recognition technology is already being used for applications ranging from unlocking phones to identifying potential criminals. Despite advances, it has still come under fire for racial bias: ...

Based on complex numerical algorithms programs are used in many areas of life. They track changes in stock prices of companies on the largest stock exchanges, solve complex logistic problems while ...

is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Face masks are one of the best defenses against the spread of COVID-19, but ...