Science - Rationale Magazine

30 Jan

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

22 Jan

Science & Health

In science we trust

22/01/2025
By Mathew Marques
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Public trust in scientists is vital. It can help us with personal decisions on matters like health and provide evidence-based policymak...

17 Jan

Science & Health

How too much security threatens the era of global science collaboration

17/01/2025
By Caroline Wagner
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Amid heightened tensions between the United States and China, the two countries signed a bilateral science and technology agreement

24 Dec

Science & Health

If correlation doesn’t imply causation, how do scientists figure out why things happen?

24/12/2024
By Hassan Vally
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Most of us have heard the phrase “correlation does not equal causation”. But understanding how scientists move beyond identifying corre...

23 Oct

Science & Health

What will AI really mean for science?

23/10/2024
By Ehsan Nabavi
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has taken centre stage in basic science. The five winners of the 2024 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Phy...

20 Aug

Science & Health

How science really works

20/08/2024
By Soazig Le Bihan
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This article is part of our ‘Celebrate Science’ feature series to mark National Science Week, 10-18 August 2024. A man in a lab coa...

16 Aug

Feature series, Science & Health

Why ‘science communication’ needs to harness human curiosity

16/08/2024
By James Fodor
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This article is part of our ‘Celebrate Science’ feature series to mark National Science Week, 10-18 August 2024. Science communicat...

13 Aug

Feature series, Science & Health

From my brush with breast cancer, I know the value of science – and the need to defend it – more than ever

This article is part of our ‘Celebrate Science’ feature series to mark National Science Week, 10-18 August 2024. Many people are no...

24 Jun

Philosophy & Psychology

How asking the right question opens the path to deep knowledge

According to all the advice on how to win friends and influence people, I should start this essay by explaining how the following words...

06 Jun

Law & Politics

Junk science in Australia’s courtrooms

08/06/2024
By Gary Edmond
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The conviction of Robert Farquharson for the murder of his three sons on Father’s Day 2005 is being questioned in the media, wit...

18 May

Science & Health

Unravelling life’s origin

There is still so much we don’t understand about the origin of life on Earth. The definition of life itself is a source of debate am...

27 Apr

Science & Health

To restore trust in science, we need great storytellers

27/04/2024
By Peter C Doherty
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All good scientists are sceptics. Scepticism is central to the scientific method, which is basically designed to prevent the most human...

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