Are those earmuffs, or beermuffs?
Presenting a head-warmingly new non-invasive technique for measuring blood alcohol levels.
Japanese researchers have developed a pair of earmuffs that can measure real-time changes in your blood alcohol conce...
Society
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It’s Thank a Climate Scientist Day
We talk to First Dog on the Moon about expressing thanks to those who heroically keep on climate ...
It’s 12 June, the main day of the year – and there really ought to be more than one – when we stop to thank climate s...
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Productive or unproductive, that is the question
Economist Ross Garnaut makes a compelling argument to put the Federal Government’s $15 billion in...
When I ask economist and author Ross Garnaut which infrastructure projects in Australian history have impressed him t...
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Conversation
How an app to decrypt criminal messages was born
The Australian Federal Police and the FBI came up with it ‘over a few beers’.
By David TuffleyAustralian and US law enforcement officials on Tuesday announced they’d sprung a trap three years...
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El Salvador to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender
What would a cryptocurrency as a legal tender look like?
The president of Central American nation El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, today announced a proposal to make the cryptocurr...
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Conversation
Australia's closed border is costing the economy $36.5 million a day
Andreas Chai, Griffith University; George Verikios, Griffith University, and Tom Nik Verhelst, Griffith University...
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Stolen Generations survivors still face poorer health outcomes
Those removed from their families are worse off than other Indigenous Australians.
Survivors of the Stolen Generations aged over 50 have poorer health and socioeconomic demographics than other Indigen...
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Putting a price on undiscovered Australian species
The mission to map Australia’s biodiversity will bring big economic benefits.
What’s the monetary value of our wildlife? Pretty high, according to Deloitte Access Economics, which has just releas...
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The new coronavirus variant names
Variants of note will now be designated a Greek letter.
The WHO announced has announced they will be using new variant names for the SARS-CoV-2 strains that are particularly...
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Conversation
Busted: 5 myths about 30km/h speed limits in Australia
Speed limits as low as 30km/h are becoming more common – here are some misconceptions about them.
Matthew Mclaughlin, University of Newcastle; Ben Beck, Monash University; Julie Brown, George Institute for Global He...
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Conversation
Money for telescopes and vaccines is great, but the budget's lack of basic science funding risks leaving Australia behind
More needs to be allocated to fundamental science research.
By John Shine, Garvan InstituteThe story of the past year has been the pandemic: from the first outbreaks in earl...
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2021–22 federal budget
Is there good news for science and technology in the Australian Government’s economic plans?
The Australian Government treasurer Josh Frydenberg brought down his third budget tonight, and the news for the scien...