Mar 3, 2022 | Featured, Politics & Society, Science & Technology
By Kathryn Bowen & Belle Workman The latest UN climate report finds that in the absence of ambitious action on climate change, the worst is yet to come for human populations. As catastrophic flooding devastates parts of Queensland and northern New South Wales,...
Jan 24, 2022 | Science & Technology
By Tiffany A. Kosch Conserving wildlife with breeding programs doesn’t help threatened species to adapt, but synthetic biology may be able to bring protection by adapting genetics. What if we could help threatened wildlife better adapt to the intractable threats many...
Dec 7, 2021 | Arts & Culture
By Catriona May Two former official war artists are using art to research how we respond to and cope with, conflict. Throughout history, humans have turned to art to help remember and make sense of war. In Australia, the role of artists as eyewitnesses to conflict was...
Nov 23, 2021 | Politics & Society
By Gabby Bush, Simon Coghlan, Jeannie Paterson & Tim Miller Online monitoring raises serious questions about privacy and rights, but where justified it can be used for good if organisations consider wider issues like transparency and fairness. Youth, online news...
Nov 15, 2021 | Politics & Society
By Rebekkah Markey-Towler & Jacqueline Peel Governments around the world are being taken to court for inaction on climate change – but can litigation help fill the policy gap? During COP26 – the global conference on climate change – countries are gathering in...
Nov 2, 2021 | Arts & Culture
By Anders Furze Although scientific evidence says the Earth is a sphere orbiting the Sun, there are some people around who still think our planet is flat… and social media plays a role. If you type ‘flat Earth’ into Google, you’d be joining a group of people...
Oct 28, 2021 | Science & Technology
By Harriet Edmund An international collaboration has developed a new drug candidate that stops the malaria parasite from breaking down waste, resulting in fatal ‘molecular constipation’ and hope for new treatments. Diseases caused by infectious organisms pose an...
Oct 21, 2021 | Business & Economics
By Nicolas Hérault Low interest rates and COVID-19 mean governments, not central banks, now control the world’s key economic levers. The COVID-19 pandemic has delivered a huge shock to the global economy just as we are witnessing a major shift in who calls the shots...
Oct 14, 2021 | Business & Economics
By Christina Candido, Samin Marzban & Iva Durakovic The collective experiences of workers pre and post-pandemic offer five lessons for organisations to reimagine workplaces and practices. When pandemic restrictions banished workers from offices into their homes,...
Oct 6, 2021 | Science & Technology
By Stuart Johnston & Kevin Painter Mathematical modelling reveals that human-driven noise in our oceans is affecting marine life, particularly whales, confusing their annual migrations. The long-distance migrations performed by groups of animals offer some of the...