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24 Oct
Science & Health

Sagan’s experiment a guiding light in the search for life

  • 24/10/2023
  • By author-avatar Gareth Dorrian
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It’s been 30 years since a group of scientists led by Carl Sagan found evidence for life on Earth using data from instrum...

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25 Aug
Law & Politics

What do climate denialists do when the facts change?

  • 25/08/2023
  • By author-avatar Noel Turnbull
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John Maynard Keynes is widely believed to have said: “Well, when the facts change I change my mind. What do you do?” It was probably ac...

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21 Aug
Feature series, Science & Health

Non-overlapping magisteria: Why Gould got it wrong

  • 21/08/2023
  • By author-avatar Jonathan Meddings
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This article is part of our ‘Celebrate Science’ feature series to mark National Science Week. It was originally published in the...

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17 Aug
Feature series, Science & Health

Teaching science to children

  • 17/08/2023
  • By author-avatar Elizabeth Dangerfield
  • 1 comment
This article is part of our ‘Celebrate Science’ feature series to mark National Science Week. It was originally published in the...

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14 Aug
Feature series, Science & Health

Reflections on the erasure of Hellenistic science

  • 17/08/2023
  • By author-avatar Paul Monk
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This article is part of our ‘Celebrate Science’ feature series to mark National Science Week. It was originally published in the...

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20 Jul
Science & Health

When scientists speak out

  • 20/07/2023
  • By author-avatar Scott Frickel
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Hundreds of scientists protested government efforts to restrict educational access to Western science theories, including Darwin...

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21 Mar
Science & Health

Lessons from social science forecasting during the pandemic

  • 21/03/2023
  • By author-avatar Cendri Hutcherson
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Imagine being a policymaker at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. You have to decide which actions to recommend, how much risk to ...

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05 Mar
Science & Health

How amateur scientists are making important discoveries

  • 05/03/2023
  • By author-avatar Mark Lorch
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What images does science conjure up in your mind? You may well be visualising a laboratory, equations scrawled on a blackboard. Figures...

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09 Feb
Science & Health

The gaping problem at the heart of scientific research

  • 10/02/2023
  • By author-avatar Virginia Barbour
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Researchers can't progress their work without access to very expensive scientific journals. The rebellion against the publishers and th...

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29 Jan
Science & Health

Success without substance

  • 29/01/2023
  • By author-avatar Adrian Barnett
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New Zealander Nigel Richards has won the French Scrabble championship twice. What’s more remarkable than double wins is that Nigel d...

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05 Jan
Feature series

Expert knowledge and scientific thinking under siege

  • 05/01/2023
  • By author-avatar Paul Monk
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This article is part of our ‘From the vault’ series of summer reading. It was originally published in the Winter 2017 edition of Austra...

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28 Nov
Science & Health

Science experiments at school can be fun, inspiring and safe

  • 29/11/2022
  • By author-avatar Nathan Kilah
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To a young mind, science can be magical. Perhaps you remember a visually striking or seemingly inexplicable scientific demonstration ...

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