Raising Heretics: kids can change the world
How to teach your kids to think for themselves
If children are the future, then how we teach them will shape that world. But are we, as parents and teachers, raisin...
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Nature is for everyone
How to break down the barriers to make nature accessible for all.
The outdoors has something for everyone, but is nature accessible to all? This panel explores the diverse valu...
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Deciphering the Philosophers’ Stone: how we cracked a 400-year-old alchemical cipher
How do you crack a centuries-old cipher?
Richard Bean, The University of Queensland; Megan Piorko, Georgia State University, and Sarah Lang, University of Gra...
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Trolling, abuse of scientists during the pandemic
Scientists around the world have been targeted on social media and abused for speaking the truth ...
Around one in five Australian scientists surveyed by the Australian Science Media Centre (AusSMC) say they’ve experie...
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How can Australia safely return to work after COVID lockdowns?
Restrictions ease across Greater Sydney today, with many going back to work after over 100 days o...
As New South Wales approaches the 80% double-dose target, restrictions will ease in the next few weeks, and most busi...
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Oral vaccines, rare ecosystems and microplastic map
The ‘Oscars’ of Australian research, Eureka! 2021 rewards new ideas.
Black summer bushfire research, a vaccine against a childhood virus and a science education program for Indigenous st...
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ASEAN nations join forces to imagine the “next big things”
Australia is taking a lead role in developing the foresight skills of planners and policy makers ...
What will the South-East Asian region look like in 2040? What are the big drivers of change happening now? The COV...
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Lost in translation: linguistic diversity could save biodiversity
33% of conservation papers aren’t published in English – but they could hold the key.
The extinction crisis is one of the greatest challenges currently facing our planet. According to new research, tappi...
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Māori voices are needed to understand Antarctic ice core
A study in Nature has declared that Māori people have burned forests in New Zealand to clear land...
Antarctic ice samples, which were claimed to reveal remnants of 700 years of land-burning practices in New Zealand/Ao...
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The politics of nature
What happened to a basic concern for the environment?
These days, everything feels like a partisan issue, be it immigration, national security, renewable energy or even lo...
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2021 Nobel Prize-winners announced
Amid a complex and trying year for scientists of all stripes, this year’s Nobel Prize-winners hav...
Chemistry The 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has just been awarded for the development of a precise new molecule-bu...
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Cities of the future
As temperatures soar, how do we transform Australian cities to improve our health?
How does where you live affect your health? Those of us who live in cities probably don’t notice the thought – or lac...