When you think about Artificial intelligence do you think ‘Terminator’? But AI is so much more than robots! It’s being used to protect the world’s most endangered animals.
We all experience pain differently. Now scientists can finally measure it. Chronic pain affects 20% of adults and it’s the #1 cause of long-term disability.
Dr Sue Keay never expected to end up in robotics. It was a 2014 conversation with her sister, Andra Keay, a Silicon Valley-based robotics entrepreneur, that made her realise robotics was a way to have a greater impact on society. “I saw the potential and I was hooked,” Keay told The Brilliant.
Since then, Keay has created Australia’s first robotics roadmap, brought The Grace Hopper Celebration, the world’s largest gathering of women technologists, to Australia, and is the inaugural CEO of the Queensland AI hub.
Research from universities, research institutes and hospitals are impacting and improving every part of your life. But how many do you actually know?
Nicola Stokes, a powerhouse in corporate leadership is changing the face of philanthropy by helping direct more money from the world’s wealthy into better lives for sick kids.
Over the years there has been a call to incorporate the arts into the STEM acronym, turning it into STEAM. The main argument seems to be that we need an explicit acknowledgement that arts-based learning is a critical part of our education. By why frame it around STEM? It’s limiting and distracting.
In almost 50 years of broadcasting, he’s interviewed more than 10,000 scientists, including scores of Nobel laureates, written ten books, inspired countless young Australians to study science, and been voted one of Australia’s Living National Treasures.
Dr Syra Madad remembers watching the movie Outbreak, enthralled by watching Dustin Hoffman and Rene Russo play doctors seeking a cure for a deadly, Ebola-like pandemic. Madad told her parents this would be her future career. “I was interested not just in infectious disease, but in highly infectious diseases,” she told The Brilliant.
Today Madad is the senior director of New York City’s (NYC) Health and Hospitals System-wide Special Pathogens Program, and a key figure in managing NYC’s response to infectious diseases like measles, Ebola—and Covid-19.