Recent studies using advanced brain scanning techniques are revealing new details of how LSD effects different parts of the brain. These insights could be important in the development of new medicines.

Big companies like Samsung and KFC are curtailing their use of single use plastic and moving towards recyclable and biodegradable packaging materials. Hawaii and Bali are moving to get in on the act too by banning plastics for food and water in an effort to clean up their environment.

Coinciding with Safer Internet Day which aims to create a better internet for young people, Google releases a new Chrome feature that warns about compromised logins.

The Amazon CEO and world's richest man faces personal embarrassment over leaked sexting with girlfriend Lauren Sanchez. But the matter has widened into a massive political scandal, with accusations the Saudis and Trump are involved.

Cyber security experts say the world's democracies should fear the development of artificial intelligence as a means to automate control in authoritarian states.

2844 people were surveyed after giving up Facebook for a month. Many reported increased personal happiness, less extreme political views and more time spent disconnected from the internet. A large number reportedly stayed off social media after the survey was over.

The Swiss Blue Brain Project aims to create biologically detailed digital reconstructions and simulations of rat, and ultimately human brains. Aided by super computers, the project provides a radically new approach to understanding the multilevel structure and function of the brain.

Efforts intensify to revive the Opportunity rover, silent on Mars since June 2018; the InSight lander deploys instruments to study the Martian interior at Elysium Planitia and New Horizons completes its successful flyby of Ultima Thule, the most distant object ever visited.

Are elections downunder vulnerable to manipulation like the 2016 US election? Are the 9 million Instagram users sitting ducks for an all-out meme assault?

Malicious software can cause enormous physical damage to older, insecure infrastructure. It can even black out the internet for entire countries.