Science & Health
Science versus ownership: The true value of fossils
Last year, a Stegosaurus nicknamed ‘Apex’ sold at auction for US$40.5 million. A juvenile Ceratosaurus fetched US$30.5 million just last month. Supporters of ...
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The dangers of exponential growth
António Guterres understands something that most world leaders do not. He knows that exponential growth is unrelenting and immensely destructive. ...
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The fast lane to a renewable energy future
An academic living in cold Canberra retired his gas heaters a few years ago and installed electric heat pumps for ...
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When AI audits the scholarly record, what will happen to public trust in science?
Self-correction is fundamental to science. One of its most important forms is peer review, when anonymous experts scrutinise research before it ...
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Why the British accepted evolutionary science and Americans didn’t
One hundred years after a Tennessee teacher named John Scopes started a legal battle over what the state’s schools can ...
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Reproducibility: A foundation of scientific credibility
Many people have been there. The dinner party is going well until someone decides to introduce a controversial topic. In ...
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Just like magic: Tapping into the secrets of the human mind
Magicians have long been masters of mind games, turning our brain’s quirks and blind spots into moments of pure astonishment. ...
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Separating facts from fake news in the realm of health and nutrition
The COVID-19 pandemic illuminated a vast landscape of misinformation about many topics, science and health chief among them. Since then, information overload continues unabated, and ...
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In science we trust
Public trust in scientists is vital. It can help us with personal decisions on matters like health and provide evidence-based ...
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How too much security threatens the era of global science collaboration
Amid heightened tensions between the United States and China, the two countries signed a bilateral science and technology agreement on 13 ...
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If correlation doesn’t imply causation, how do scientists figure out why things happen?
Most of us have heard the phrase “correlation does not equal causation”. But understanding how scientists move beyond identifying correlations ...
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The whole story of human evolution – from ancient apes, to Lucy and us (Part 2)
This article is the second part in a two-part series. Read the first part here. Homo erectus (about 1.8m up to ...
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