The CSIRO is planning to use artificial intelligence to identify and name its millions-strong collection of Australian animals and plants that will otherwise languish unrecognised for decades – even centuries.
Media artist Grayson Cooke uses satellite data to produce beautifully surreal images of Australian landforms, with his latest video project to be screened at next month’s Spectra Art + Science event in Adelaide.
Futurists say we will be eating in vitro meat (IVM) – meat grown in a laboratory rather than on a farm – within five to 10 years. But are consumers ready to use the artificial product as a regular replacement for the real thing?