Science & Health - Rationale Magazine

Ric Streatfield 16/05/2024

Back in 1987, around the beginnings of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Australia, as a Senior Medical Officer I had volunteered ...

Peter C Doherty 27/04/2024

All good scientists are sceptics. Scepticism is central to the scientific method, which is basically designed to prevent the most ...

Christian Turney 20/02/2024

Last year, the world experienced the hottest day ever recorded, as we endured the first year where temperatures were 1.5°C warmer ...

Michael Dickson 20/12/2023

The virtue of intellectual humility is getting a lot of attention. It’s heralded as a part of wisdom, an aid to self-improvement and ...

Heather Bray 14/12/2023

A stir went through the Australian science communication community last month, caused by an article with the headline ‘Science communicators ...

Meg Leja 05/11/2023

Nothing calls to mind nonsensical treatments and bizarre religious healing rituals as easily as the notion of Dark Age medicine. ...

Gareth Dorrian 24/10/2023

It’s been 30 years since a group of scientists led by Carl Sagan found evidence for life on Earth using ...

Ross Anderson 17/10/2023

There are estimated to be nearly 8 million species of animals living today, making up the majority of Earth’s documented biodiversity and ...

Simon McCarthy-Jones 30/09/2023

The world has witnessed breathtaking advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI), with ChatGPT being one of the best known examples. ...

Matthew Wills 27/09/2023

Depending upon how you do the counting, there are around 9 million species on Earth, from the simplest single-celled organisms to humans. ...

Jonathan Meddings 21/08/2023

This article is part of our ‘Celebrate Science’ feature series to mark National Science Week. It was originally published in ...

Elizabeth Dangerfield 17/08/2023

This article is part of our ‘Celebrate Science’ feature series to mark National Science Week. It was originally published in ...