The promise of the “learn to code” movement

Dec 04, 2018 00:03 am UTC| Insights & Views Science

This week, educators, students and the public around the world are participating in Computer Science Education Week by organizing and leading one-hour coding tutorials. By the start of the week, more than 2,700 Canadian...

Inspired by sci-fi, an airplane with no moving parts and a blue ionic glow

Nov 26, 2018 16:59 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science

Since their invention more than 100 years ago, airplanes have been moved through the air by the spinning surfaces of propellers or turbines. But watching science fiction movies like the Star Wars, Star Trek and Back to the...

Ion drive space engine used on aircraft for first time

Nov 26, 2018 16:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science

Imagine an aircraft engine that has no moving parts, produces no harmful exhaust and makes no noise. Thats what researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US have created by adapting a technology...

Fight against malaria needs combination of innovative science and communities

Nov 26, 2018 16:47 pm UTC| Health Science

Current strategies to prevent malaria using bed nets and insecticides protect millions of people from malaria-transmitting mosquitoes. Last year 175 million bed nets treated with insecticide were delivered across...

Curious Kids: What are some of the challenges to Mars travel?

Nov 26, 2018 15:52 pm UTC| Science

Curious Kids is a series for children. If you have a question youd like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected] You might also like the podcast Imagine This, a co-production between ABC KIDS...

Why space debris cleanup might be a national security threat

Nov 14, 2018 12:18 pm UTC| Science

As an international relations scholar who studies space law and policy, I have come to realize what most people do not fully appreciate: Dealing with space debris is as much a national security issue as it is a technical...

Taxonomy, the science of naming things, is under threat

Nov 14, 2018 11:52 am UTC| Science

Museums are cathedrals of science, but they are under threat worldwide as part of a malaise of undervaluing museum collections and the field of taxonomy, the science of naming biodiversity. The Museum of New Zealand Te...