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“They want to blow it up” – environmental scientists weigh in on the Nationals’ plans for the Murray-Darling Basin
The Murray-Darling Basin plan should be reviewed in light of science, not on political whim.
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Next Big Thing
Let’s clear the air on ventilation
We now know that the air we breathe, especially indoors, is the main route of transmission for harmful and often deadly viruses like COVID-19. Architects, engineers and legislators must understand this as they design the buildings of the future.
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Listen up: the sound of science
Can how we speak reflect changes in our mental health? Can ambient sound bring order to loved ones living with dementia?
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A new way of building
Tech informed by AI has been slow to reach construction sites, but that’s about to change.
Previous Issues
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17 - 23 Sep 2021
Counting carbon with smartwatches, The mathematics of The Number 23, Conservation champions, The decline of truth, Satellite cities under climate change
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10 - 16 Sep 2021
The carbon cost of meat; Chronic pain; Poppies tall enough to reach space; Electricity on a microgrid; Collision of mathematics, bus timetables, and particle physics.
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03 - 09 Sep 2021
From the frontline of COVID ICU; Australia’s frog apocalypse; hunt for Nazi uranium; Western Green Energy Hub; Next Big Thing in gravitational waves
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27 Aug - 02 Sep 2021
Does COVID immunity wane? Zuckerberg’s metaverse; The future of housing is 3D (printed); Solar power’s next big thing; Dark-matter-discovering crystal
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20 - 26 Aug 2021
Climate goes to court; Afghanistan’s unclaimable lithium bounty; the next big thing: can your car be hacked?; Australia’s space industry at risk of grounding; IPCC and biodiversity
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13 - 19 Aug 2021
The IPCC’s estimation about Pacific Islands; cyber-security; Victoria’s dark-matter mine; VR and pain; geology’s Next Big Thing.
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06 - 12 Aug 2021
ASX companies’ path to zero; Babylonian trigonometry; cancer immunotherapy hopes; when good research gets bad reporting; NFTs and the future of coding
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30 Jul - 05 Aug 2021
Modelling the way out of Sydney’s COVID outbreak; Europe’s weapon to achieve zero emissions by 2050; Neil Sims on the next big thing in sustainable aquaculture; archaeology of the Anthropocene; engineering for a COVID-limiting urban future.
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23 - 29 Jul 2021
What Gorgon’s shortfall means for carbon capture; billionaires blast off; Mitra Safavi-Naeini on using physics in the fight against cancer; the age of water; should we keep native animals as pets?
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16 - 22 Jul 2021
International lessons for Australia’s reopening; Starlink’s threat to astronomy’s future; video calls enter the third dimension; new National Park showcases oldest animals on Earth; Claudia Vickers on the synthetic biology revolution.
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09 - 15 Jul 2021
Chipaggedon: why Taiwan’s water matters to us all; Australia’s research mice crisis; A short history of driving on the Moon; Can we enter the mRNA race?; Peter Bailey’s idea for the cities of the future.
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25 Jun - 01 Jul 2021
Barry Jones’ $15billion plan; Science of truffles; Do we need an AI Commissioner?; Silicon chip an atom wide; Geologist Nicholas Flament’s Next Big Thing.