Science - Rationale Magazine

14 Dec

The real work of science communicators

17/12/2023
By Heather Bray
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A stir went through the Australian science communication community last month, caused by an article with the headline 'Science commu...

24 Oct

Science & Health

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

24/10/2023
By 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...

25 Aug

Law & Politics

What do climate denialists do when the facts change?

25/08/2023
By 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...

21 Aug

Feature series, Science & Health

Non-overlapping magisteria: Why Gould got it wrong

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

17 Aug

Feature series, Science & Health

Teaching science to children

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

14 Aug

Feature series, Science & Health

Reflections on the erasure of Hellenistic science

17/08/2023
By 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...

20 Jul

Science & Health

When scientists speak out

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

21 Mar

Science & Health

Lessons from social science forecasting during the pandemic

Imagine being a policymaker at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. You have to decide which actions to recommend, how much risk to ...

05 Mar

Science & Health

How amateur scientists are making important discoveries

05/03/2023
By 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...

09 Feb

Science & Health

The gaping problem at the heart of scientific research

Researchers can't progress their work without access to very expensive scientific journals. The rebellion against the publishers and th...

29 Jan

Science & Health

Success without substance

29/01/2023
By 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...

05 Jan

Feature series

Expert knowledge and scientific thinking under siege

05/01/2023
By 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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