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Opinion – Netflix fails to recreate the Stanford Prison Experiment
Hoping The New Stanford Prison Experiment on Netflix would offer real psychological insights? Expect to be disappointed by this flimsy reality show disguised as science. Ever since it was conducted in the 1970s, the Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) has become something of a cautionary tale for psychologists. While it was presented as this landmark demonstration of the corrupting influence of power and authority, the study has also gone on...
Southeast Asia faces worst transboundary haze crisis in a decade
The return of the annual haze, worsened by the El Nino phenomenon has left Southeast Asia grasping at straws for Indonesian accountability. It has been months since I have breathed a week’s worth of fresh air here in Malaysia. On some days, low visibility makes it difficult to see what’s right ahead of you, while nights are plagued with the smell of smoke. This is the stark reality of the transboundary...
How systemic educational failures ignited the France protests
Students, teachers, and parents have taken to the street to protest France’s crippling education infrastructure. However, as the movement started to gain nationwide traction, so did violence, driven by clashes with the riot police. These past few weeks have seen intense waves of violence associated with student-led protests in France. What started as a local walkout by teachers at a high school in Créteil quickly turned into a nationwide...
Google’s SynthID to stop AI organisms from slipping through the cracks
With Gen AI now capable of creating functional molecular structures, Google has come up with a new system to tackle imminent biosecurity risks that come with such innovations. Before modern AI, much of computational biology focused on storing, searching, and comparing biological data. Public databases allowed scientists to check whether a newly identified sequence resembled something already known, but that was it. However, this changed in 2020, when Google DeepMind unveiled...
Trump’s Space Academy could change the space race
With America’s space ambitions only continuing to grow, Trump is turning his focus to the industry’s workforce that could keep the US ahead of adversaries like China. In both his terms in office, aside from immigration and anti-wokeness, President Donald Trump’s focus has increasingly turned towards the space front. In 2019, he established the US Space Force (USSF), emphasising the growing importance of space to national security. But this interest...
AI agents hacked Australia’s national healthcare database
Revealed during the United Nations General Assembly, this hack exposes a critical failure in current safety standards, sparking concerns over the future of AI. In these past few years, conversations around AI seem to linger around a never-ending crossroads, with the recent shocking breach of Australian government data by OpenAI agents. That said, I couldn’t tell you which is more concerning: the time it took the company to detect and report...
The US officially confirms it has space weapons orbiting Earth
The nation has confirmed that it possesses weapons in orbit, crossing a new threshold that could accelerate the global arms race in space. On September 14th, US Air Force Secretary Troy Meink announced that the country had officially deployed weapons into space. And yes, you read that right – that’s weapons, plural. In his announcement, Meink affirmed that these ‘space control weapons were capable of defending the Joint Force...
Mamdani’s 9/11 air quality reports expose years of misleading claims
Records that were long withheld by the city now reveal that the officials knew about Ground Zero’s toxic air in the years following 9/11 and chose to mislead the public. On September 11th, 2001, Americans were initially met with confusion when the North tower was first hit. Minutes later, when the second plane struck the South Tower, that confusion quickly turned into fear. While the collapse of both towers would reshape...
Is the welfare of US soldiers dwindling under Trump?
As conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln raise concerns over soldiers’ mental health, a worrying pattern is emerging of military ambition being placed above the welfare of soldiers. For nearly nine months, the USS Abraham Lincoln has been stationed near the Middle East, aiding the US in its campaign against Iran. Though its deployment was initially intended as a seven-month routine mission, its purpose quickly shifted amid rising tensions...
AI can now create custom viruses to fight superbugs
With antibiotic resistant infections on the rise, this new breakthrough paves the way for scalable AI-driven phage therapy, while simultaneously creating ethical concerns over biosecurity. Antibiotics is just one of those discoveries that ended up being fundamental to human history. It turned fatal infections into treatable conditions. In doing so, its inclusion became a necessity in modern healthcare protocols. However, constant usage or the incorrect prescription of antibiotics in recent...
