Melbourne dentist fights 'unfair' anonymous online reviews; Tapping big data to predict and prevent suicide; Fancy a fake steak??; NASA's new tech enabling targeted Perseverance rover landing at dangerous Martian crater; Controversial TikTok muscling into music streaming?

We chat with beekeeper activist Simon Mulvany about the need for more clarity on Australian food packaging, which allows consumers to make informed and healthy choices at the supermarket. Knowing details of country of origin is a right, not a privilege.

The legal battle that has ground on for years between beekeeper activist Simon Mulvany and Capilano Honey (now Hive and Wellness Australia) is finally over. Relieved and philosophical, Simon discusses the outcome of his struggle, what he's achieved and the lessons learned. And he's positive about the future: he's just raised over $50,000 for bushfire-effected beekeepers and reckons there's a book to be written about his journey so far.

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CSIRO has found a way of capturing carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere using sponge-like metal-organic frameworks. The project, called Airthena, can be scaled up and used in a wide variety of industrial applications, including making fizzy drinks.

Mars is a busy place in 2020. Four more spacecraft are set to blast off to the red planet: Mars 2020 rover from NASA, the ExoMars Europe/Russia rover, a small Chinese rover and the Hope orbiter from the United Arab Emirates. The Hope Mars Mission is an effort to gain the technical know how to further the UAE's space capabilities and symbolise hope for all young Arabs.

In groundbreaking legal action, a Melbourne dentist has persuaded the Federal Court of Australia to ask Google for a damaging online business review to be removed. Reform and redress of anonymous business reviews is urgently needed.

More than 10% of the world’s entire human population is in lock down. We outline the World Health Organisation's recommendations at a time of rising fears of a global viral pandemic. We discuss the benefits and issues of the quarantine process, asymptomatic spreading of the disease and the need for good personal and respiratory hygiene by travelers.

John reports that the latest 'flip phone' from Motorola is a lemon. He says it suffers from poor durability, screen flickering, green lines and squeaks when opening and closing. For US$1500 you might get 18 months out of it. As big a fail as the Galaxy Fold debacle...

Our digital fingerprints are everywhere. Big data allows all sorts of insights into human behaviour - some for good, some ill. Researchers at the University of Virginia reckon the language of text messaging may one day enable medicos to foresee increased risk of suicide.

Huawei, Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi are teaming up to create the Global Developer Service Alliance. It'll provide a platform for international developers to upload apps to all of their app stores and is a direct assault on the dominance of the Google Play store.