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Australia’s governing body for bicycles, AusCycling, was forced to remove the handlebars from its track bike used in the 1,000m time test at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games because it was unsafe to use. Key points: AusCycling released a statement at the same time that the competition started at the Commonwealth Games Matt Glaetzer won gold, Thomas Cornish silver and Matthew Richardson was fourth despite theoretically driving a slower set up AusCycling came under fire at the Tokyo Olympics when the handlebar set failed during the race That didn’t stop the trio of Australians as Matt Glaetzer took a stunning gold medal, beating fellow Aussie Tom Cornish by more than half a second to silver. It was Glaezer’s fifth Commonwealth Games gold. Matt Richardson was fourth behind bronze medalist Nicholas Paul of Trinidad and Tobago. The Aussies’ performance is even more remarkable considering the fact that all three ride a theoretically slower setup than their competitors. In a statement r

It is understood that Westpac’s new measures affect only a handful of clients and the bank’s total exposure to oil and gas is approximately $2.4 billion. Anthony Miller, Westpac’s head of institutional banking, said all of the bank’s clients were working through how they would achieve net zero emissions, pledging to work with them to achieve the transition. We have set our own target “Every client is involved in this, thinking about what their transition plans and targets should be. It will only get deeper and more substantive as we progress,” he said. “Just like if a client doesn’t meet their financial commitments, we don’t leave them, we don’t leave, we stay with them and help them. It’s just about partnerships, we’ve set our targets, we’ve shared them with clients, and we’ve set our own targets.” Announcing changes to bank lending policies in power, cement and oil and gas, including a commitment to cut oil and gas emissions by 23 percent at 2021 levels by 2030, Mr King said Westp

The rise of artificial intelligence that uses cameras to check for health and safety violations in the workplace has raised concerns about a creeping workplace surveillance culture and a lack of protection for workers. Key points: AI can use cameras to monitor workplaces for health and safety violations and hazards One company with an Australian client said that blurring of the face was one of the steps taken to protect privacy Experts say Australian laws are not up-to-date to adequately regulate the increasing use of AI in the workplace AI technology that uses CCTV cameras can be trained to identify violations such as when a worker is not wearing gloves or a hard hat, or to identify hazards such as spills. One company, Intenseeye, reports having many Australian customers for the new technology, including large mining companies. But Nicholas Davis, professor of emerging technologies at the University of Technology Sydney, said this latest use of AI raises questions about the growing s

Scientists have debunked the popular theory of how a woodpecker can repeatedly beat its beak against a tree at high speed without damaging its own brain. The researchers analyzed high-speed video of three woodpecker species — the stacked woodpecker, the black woodpecker, and the great spotted woodpecker. They found their skulls did not act like shock-absorbing helmets as previously thought, but more like rigid metal hammers. In fact, their calculations showed that any shock absorbers would hinder the woodpecker’s pecking ability. Woodpeckers quickly drill into trees to extract insects deep in the wood with their long tongues. An international team of researchers has analyzed high-speed video of three woodpecker species. Here is a sequence of frames from a high-speed video of a woodpecker pecking (Dryocopus pileatus) Photo of a black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius) filmed in a study in Alpenzoo Innbruck, Austria HAMMER OR HELMET? Scientists have long wondered how woodpecker

Frame sequence from a high-speed video of a woodpecker pecking (Dryocopus pileatus). Credit: Erica Ortlieb & Robert Shadwick (University of British Columbia) Scientists have long wondered how woodpeckers can repeatedly pound their beaks into tree trunks without damaging their brains. This led to the idea that their skulls should act like shock-absorbing helmets. Now, researchers report in the journal Current Biology on July 14 have disputed this idea, saying that their heads act more like stiff hammers. In fact, their calculations showed that any shock absorbers would hinder the woodpecker’s pecking ability. “By analyzing high-speed videos of three species of woodpeckers, we found that woodpeckers do not absorb shocks from impacting trees,” said Sam Van Wassenbergh of the Universiteit Antwerp, Belgium. Van Wassenbergh and his colleagues first calculated the effects of slowing down during pecking at three woodpecker species. They used th