When US Attorney General, Eric Holder, jets into New Zealand next week, he can expect to find hundreds of people attempting to film him — and set his actions to music.

Robotics in many parts of the world is driven by military aims. Pacifist Japan takes a different approach: This is a digital love story.

Pain medication fentanyl is liberally prescribed by Australian doctors, with increasingly fatal consequences.

Corruption-busting, Beijing-style has made wrist-management a political necessity during this week’s changing of the political guard in China.

They identified Australian outlaw Ned Kelly’s remains. But their main work involves unearthing the bones — and the lies — buried in war. Meet the crack team of forensic anthropologists transforming human-rights ...

Following our profile on her makelovenotporn start-up, entreporneur Cindy Gallop drops into The Global Mail to make a video.

Australia is 50 years behind other advanced economies in laying down an amazingly sensible piece of infrastructure: the High-Speed Train.

Brazil has suspended plans to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in nuclear energy. Can it afford to ignore its enormous nuclear potential?

Along with much of the old world, justice is struggling to keep up with a smartphone-toting social-media here and now.

Apple this week became the most valuable public company in history. I had a bite of that... once.

Big data has made your car more efficient and your roads safer — but not without opening a big hole in your privacy.

Kim Dotcom relaunched his file-sharing empire with much fanfare at an event in Auckland this weekend. From last August, here's our profile of the embattled Megaupload founder.

Social media is the new news-wire, with witnesses able to report events as they happen — but not without a lot of real-time blundering.

Does all the information we now have about science make us all experts? Australia's chief scientist is ready to argue the toss.

With cases down 99 per cent, the end of polio is in sight. So why has the WHO shifted the eradication of polio into emergency mode?

Blog or breaking news? It’s a blurry line, but in China it can be the difference between reading truth and fiction.

Jason Hutchens thinks the Loebner Prize, in honour of computer visionary Alan Turing, is "doomed to failure". He should know - he won it in 1996.

Jet planes are getting so schmick, soon you’ll be able to just say no to stopovers. Sydney to London in one, 20-hour hop: gruesome or godsend?

An Australian billionaire refuses to pay a $333 parking fine. The Greeks are reluctant to pay their taxes. And you … you! Cue the new art of persuasion.

Anders Behring Breivik wants the world to know he is sane. But how can someone who proudly admits to hunting down children not be mad?

The American Taser manufacturer has set its sights on the private security market. Should they be allowed to expand?

E-book sales are set to soar in the next few years, but Apple and some big publishers stand accused of cartel capers.

Women can’t always control condom use — and that's been one of the big challenges in the fight against HIV/AIDS. But it could be changing.

We know that social media is changing the news landscape – but how are news organisations responding?

Times have changed for journalists, and some have changed the way they get their information. It's time to let readers in on one of the shortcuts.

Melbourne University’s Pip Pattison studies social networks – not the ones on the internet but the ones in our lives. And she’s also a deputy Vice Chancellor, mother and lover of maths.

As Iran tries to control its citizens online, hacktivists are fighting back with new ways to allow Iranians unfettered access to the internet.

As the internet grows more sophisticated, our individual interests and interactions will determine what we see and consume.

The National Broadband Network is on its way, but is it value for money?

Every year in Colombia, hundreds are victims of the criminal use of burundanga, a mysterious drug that allegedly robs victims of their free will.

No one was convinced blood sugar levels made a difference to people who weren’t diabetic but Jennie Brand-Miller proved it.

A recent paper by two Melbourne academics explores the ethics of killing babies. Now they are the subject of death threats themselves.

Scientists are lining up to take the Pathfinder Telescope for a tour around the universe.

As a teen, Andres Barreto founded a music streaming site. Next up: an entrepreneur-led IT revolution in Latin America.

As Qantas manoeuvres around passengers’ concerns about its Airbus A380, aviation experts weigh in on the design.

We're living longer! But if there's always another possible medical miracle, when do we say it's OK to let nature take its ultimate course?

We hate the smell of petrol fumes, and the cost of petrol even more. But when will it be truly feasible to switch to electric cars?

Australian researchers have uncovered stunning evidence of how a damaged brain can heal itself.

She has been pivotal in modern scientific advances, but is still cracking the code on advancing women to the top of the field.

iTunes has millions of users around the world, but the security of the Apple store has been breached.