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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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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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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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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Conversation
Indigenous knowledge and the persistence of the ‘wilderness’ myth
Indigenous and local people are now excluded from many areas that require care.
By Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Lisa Palmer, Rebecca Hamilton, and Wolfram Dressler. According to the Oxford English di...
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A mathematician watches The Number 23
Once every decade or so, a film based on numerical ideas attempts to leap into the popular realm....
Warning: spoilers, for this fourteen-year-old film, ahead. Additional warning: the mathematical reasoning displaye...
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Does science even know what truth is, anyway?
‘Truth decay’ is eroding the world we live in. But has science had a role to play in its rapid ad...
“You can’t just hope to pour a big bucket of science into [people] as if they’re just an empty vessel waiting to be f...
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How close did the Nazis come to building an atomic bomb?
It could have changed the outcome of World War II. Now scientists are using modern technology in ...
Nearly eight decades ago, when Allied forces and Nazi Germany were locked in mortal combat in World War II, American ...
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Cosmos Briefing: The Decline of Truth
Has science played a role?
‘Truth decay’ is a subject that’s been growing in visibility; the shift away from an accepted and agreed set of facts...
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Lack of marine policies place submerged Aboriginal heritage sites at risk
Discovery of intertidal quarry and rock-art site casts light on submerged cultural landscapes.
Submerged Indigenous heritage sites – called Sea Country by many First Nations peoples – are at risk of being lost be...
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Gallery: Seeing Things Differently
Science and X-ray photography from young South Australians.
Next week, hundreds of virtual and in-person events are going to happen across the country as part of National Scienc...
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Conversation
Apocalyptic films have lulled us into a false sense of security about climate change
Drawing comparisons to films can play an important role in helping us to comprehend and make sens...
By Doug Specht, University of Westminster and Silvia Angeli, University of Westminster The Intergovernmental Panel...