Something big exploded in a galaxy far, far away: what was it?
Mar 27, 2017 16:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
At 10:49pm Western Australian time on February 2 this year, cosmic gamma rays hit the NASA satellite, Swift, orbiting the Earth. Within seconds of the detection, an alert was automatically sent to the University of WAs...
Green chemistry is key to reducing waste and improving sustainablity
Mar 27, 2017 16:17 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
The development and evolution of the chemical industry is directly responsible for many of the technological advancements that have emerged since the late 19th century. However, it was not until the 1980s that the...
Science festivals: knowledge making an exhibition of itself
Mar 27, 2017 16:13 pm UTC| Science
Science was once seen as the stuffy domain of pale male scientists who spent far too much of their time in the laboratory concocting potions in test tubes while avoiding sunlight and human interaction. Occasionally they...
How science is helping the police search for bodies in water
Mar 24, 2017 07:45 am UTC| Insights & Views Science Law
Police divers have started searching a canal in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, hoping to find the remains of schoolgirl Moira Anderson who disappeared, suspected murdered, in 1957. The operation follows an investigation by...
Let me entertain you – that's how to get a science message across
Mar 23, 2017 06:15 am UTC| Science
Communicating science to the public can be hard. Climate change is the most notorious example, but the public debates around vaccinations and evolution have also exposed a lack of understanding of how the public engages...
National Science Statement a positive gesture but lacks policy solutions: experts
Mar 22, 2017 07:24 am UTC| Science Law
Today the Australian government launched the National Science Statement, outlining its commitment to science as part of the National Innovation and Science Agenda. This comes in advance of the 2030 Strategic Plan, with...
It’s the age of the antibiotic revolution, not apocalypse
Mar 21, 2017 09:39 am UTC| Insights & Views Science
Bad news sells papers. Or as Elliot Carver, the media mogul set on world domination in the Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies put it: Theres no news like bad news. As a scientist, my responsibility is to separate fact from...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight