In her Quarterly Essay, Anna Goldsworthy treats AI as a mirror rather than a monster. Is humanity wise enough to live with a technology that amplifies our weaknesses?

The government’s proposed workplace safety reforms aim to create simpler rules for employers. Critics argue they may also move risk onto workers.

Scientists don’t know enough about the food habits of less social bees. Here’s why that urgently needs to change.

Battered by asteroid impacts, the young Earth was hot and unstable for hundreds of millions of years.