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17 Jan

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...

05 Jan

Letters to the Editor

Conference shows what secularists are for, not against

Editor’s note: If you would like to submit a letter for possible publication, please email it to editor@rationalist.com.au. See our ...

20 Dec

Science & Health

Intellectual humility is a key ingredient for scientific progress

20/12/2023
By Michael Dickson
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The virtue of intellectual humility is getting a lot of attention. It’s heralded as a part of wisdom, an aid to self-improvem...

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