Science - Rationale Magazine

14 Aug

Science versus ownership: The true value of fossils

14/08/2025
By Jessica Theodor
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Last year, a Stegosaurus nicknamed 'Apex' sold at auction for US$40.5 million. A juvenile Ceratosaurus fetched US$30.5 millio...

31 Jul

Science & Health

When AI audits the scholarly record, what will happen to public trust in science?

31/07/2025
By Naomi Oreskes
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Self-correction is fundamental to science. One of its most important forms is peer review, when anonymous experts scrutinise res...

07 Jun

Science & Health

Reproducibility: A foundation of scientific credibility

07/06/2025
By Sarah Supp
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Many people have been there. The dinner party is going well until someone decides to introduce a controversial topic. In today’s world,...

05 May

Science & Health

Just like magic: Tapping into the secrets of the human mind

05/05/2025
By Radoslaw Wincza
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Magicians have long been masters of mind games, turning our brain’s quirks and blind spots into moments of pure astonishment. But magic...

26 Apr

Law & Politics

Countering this election’s climate misinformation campaigns

26/04/2025
By Libby Lester
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Australia’s climate and energy wars are at the forefront of the federal election campaign as the major parties outline vastly different...

30 Jan

Science & Health

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...

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