This is the compulsory 12% of an employee’s earnings that an employer must pay into the employee’s nominated superannuation fund. The compulsory contribution rate has risen steadily from 3% when it ...

Last week leading chipmaker Nvidia announced DLSS-5 (Deep Learning Super Sampling), a new artificial intelligence (AI) rendering tool it describes as a “breakthrough in visual fidelity for games”. The ...

Scott Pace, the head of the National Space Council during the first Trump administration, talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the launch of Artemis II crewed mission round the Moon.

The new track from US country singer Jelly Roll, Mexican singer Carín León and Canadian producer Cirkut feels like a cheap bourbon hangover.

Lauren Manning, Lecturer in Dietetics and Human Nutrition, La Trobe University The effectiveness of IBS diets isn’t just about food – it’s also determined by how the gut and brain work together.

Medea Badashvili, Associate Professor in Human Geography, Tbilisi State University Polina Vlasenko, Postdoctoral Researcher, Social and Cultural Anthropology., University of Oxford Many Ukrainian ...

South Africa’s state-owned electricity provider, Eskom, announced in early March 2026 that it would cut off the power to 14 municipalities that collectively owe it more than R110 billion (US$6.5 ...

Media rituals based on reporting numbers and trends help us talk about complex issues using simple measures of progress or decline.

South-African born writer and world literature scholar Elleke Boehmer’s sixth novel, Ice Shock, is a breathtaking story about two lovers who, soon after they meet, find themselves separated to pursue ...

Once-lethal insecticides now require concerningly high concentrations to effectively kill mosquitoes. Some mosquitoes are already immune to all classes of insecticides used to control malaria.

The transition from water to land is a question that still intrigues scientists. Those ancient organisms would have needed to adapt to several new challenges to life out of water. So, how did they do ...

In A World Appears, Michael Pollan wonders if the search for consciousness might be a socially (and scientifically) acceptable proxy for the search for the soul.