COVID What will the second generation of COVID-19 vaccines look like? By Manuela Callari View Latest Issue Share Tweet Our volcano blind spot By Heather Handley The next big volcanic eruption could have dire consequences for the entire planet. Best of the Rest Where are we at with long COVID? Mysterious object unlike anything astronomers have seen before Seven stories about Indigenous science from 2021 Is the secret to a long life written in our DNA? Martian water nothing but a mirage Explainer: how is sunscreen made and tested? Is this the world’s weirdest telescope? By Lauren Fuge Three undersea neutrino detector observatories are in the works. What seems like a very difficult and risky project comes with great galactic rewards. Touching atoms By Mark Pesce Feeling small? It’s on any physicist’s wishlist. With a new Australian innovation, they can get a close-up view of the tiniest particles yet detected. How to cook the perfect steak, with science By Rachel Williamson It’s prime barbecuing season: how much do you know about cooking your steaks just so? Previous Issues 25 - 31 May 2023 Preserving whale sharks, the race to patent psychedelic drugs, the science of guns in the US, ENSO and global warming, and the Next Big Thing is learning more about groundwater. 18 - 24 May 2023 Matauranga Maori and natural disasters, baby formula marketing, rewilding, Auto-GPT and the Next Big Thing in Indigenous medical science. 11 - 17 May 2023 A look back on Skylab, fusing traditional knowledge and western science, sustaining seagrass, the other koala threat, volcanic solutions to an ore-some problem. 04 - 10 May 2023 The dilemma of rehabilitating Australia’s mine pits, a new way to regenerate a sustainable way of life, part three of the Cyberneticists series, solving the spider crab mystery, and the Next Big Thing is mathematically describing flame. 27 Apr - 03 May 2023 The toxic waste dump near Kaniva, the Great Southern Reef, why batteries are king, development in the Alpine National Park, generative AI. 20 - 26 Apr 2023 Learning from the history of flying taxis, making sunlight better, what can be done about Australians experiencing climate trauma, do biofuels really reduce greenhouse gases? And Professor Lauren Ball’s Next Big Thing is the question: Whose responsibility is it to enable health and wellbeing? 13 - 19 Apr 2023 Inside the qubit factory, the lockdown lowdown, the scientists giving help to kelp, cybernetics history, conservation conundrums. 05 - 11 Apr 2023 Heron Island research station, spinifex nanotechnology, seabed mining, Cathy Foley’s quantum Next Big Thing, bees and tracking urban microbiome. 30 Mar - 05 Apr 2023 Baby-brain needs a rebrand, unpeeling the wrap on climate challenges, surfing the sustainability wave, the big space questions facing government, protecting the ‘Aussie Easter bunny’. 24 - 30 Mar 2023 The true history of the chicken, Cybernetics – controlling information, Maori knowledge changing how New Zealand responds to disasters, lifeline for the grey nurse shark, and the Next Big Thing is communicating the next COVID wave. 17 - 23 Mar 2023 The golden age of paleo-tourism, detecting pesticide residues, phasing out native logging in Victoria, the ins and outs of amateur astronomy, and the Australian Conservation Foundation CEO’s Next Big Thing is the science of solutions. 10 - 16 Mar 2023 Blue Oval and out? The ups and downs of weather modification, combating crowns of thorns, getting to the bottom of the Top End’s buffalo problem, diverse DNA in Australia’s ecosystems. All Weekly Issues
