Think you're allergic to penicillin? There's a good chance you're wrong

Apr 27, 2019 06:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Health

Are you allergic to penicillin? Perhaps you have a friend or relative who is? With about one in ten people reporting a penicillin allergy, thats not altogether surprising. Penicillin is the most commonly reported drug...

Why the idea of alien life now seems inevitable and possibly imminent

Apr 27, 2019 06:03 am UTC| Insights & Views Science

This article is an edited extract from an essay, The search for ET, in The New Disruptors, the 64th edition of Griffith Review. Were publishing it as part of our occasional series Zoom Out, where authors explore key...

Zero inflation means the Reserve Bank should cut rates as soon as it can, on Tuesday week

Apr 27, 2019 06:03 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

What do US pizza executive Herman Cain, US conservative commentator Stephen Moore, US Chief Justice Earl Warren, and Australias Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe have in common? More than you might think. The...

Lies, obfuscation and fake news make for a dispiriting – and dangerous – election campaign

Apr 27, 2019 06:02 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

The integrity of Australias electoral processes is under unprecedented challenge in this federal election. The campaign has already been marred by fake news, political exploitation of social media falsehoods and...

The Green Party wave could spread across Canada

Apr 27, 2019 06:02 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

There isnt a bigger environmental politics story in the world right now than the extraordinary results by the Green Party in the recent Prince Edward Island election. For some observers, the eight seats nabbed by Peter...

Why the southern resident killer whales should have the same rights as people

Apr 27, 2019 06:02 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature

Each year, the number of southern resident killer whales in the Salish Sea on the Pacific coast declines yet another species on the road to extinction. Last summer, many grieved as they watched an orca named J35, also...

Remote connections? Detangling entanglement in quantum physics

Apr 27, 2019 06:01 am UTC| Insights & Views Science

Quantum computers, quantum cryptography and quantum (insert name here) are often in the news these days. Articles about them inevitably refer to entanglement, a property of quantum physics that makes all these magical...