We’re pretty used to walking into a supermarket and expecting the stuff we want to be on the shelf. Or at least we were until last year, when panic- buying lifted the curtain a bit on just how complex our food supply can be. Lucky for us, it’s something smart people are studying hard – including development economist Katie Ricketts.
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We know that giving students choice and ownership over their own learning is best, but has it been lost from the education system?
When I say “brown coal”, what word comes to mind? Dirty? Well maybe that’s fair… if you want to burn it. But Vince Verheyen reckons there’s a future for it in a net zero emissions world. The starting point is understanding what it is, geologically, and how to make the …
Why is it that so many people are horrible online? Are they always bad people?
Caveat emptor – buyer beware.
There are those places in nature that we come back to, again and again. The reason we come is because they’re so beautiful, or peaceful… but it’s the act of returning regularly that helps us notice when things are different. The landscape is telling us in those subtle changes what’s …
Why are medicos often so bad at giving us a straight answer to this question – and how could they respond better?
Think about the stem cells in an embryo – they’re a bit like a teenager on the brink of adulthood, with the potential to be almost anything they want to be.
Morbid question for you - how long do you reckon your remains hang around for, after you die? How about the rest of the things you’ve used in your life?
Take a moment and imagine yourself in nature - whether it is walking in a magical rainforest, swimming in the ocean, or a moment of wonder at the animals and plants around.
What happens when you’re very young can have a life-long effect on your relationships, as Raquel Peel knows all too well.
What do your undies have to do with the health of Australian soils?
What did you do when you woke up this morning? Social media on the mobile, checking the weather on your speaker or your heartrate and sleep patterns on your smart watch?
If the numbers of TV shows on the topic are anything to go by, everyone loves a cold case – trying to crack a mysterious death from the past.
What makes someone who cruises through life relatively happily different to someone who struggles with mental health issues?
What if our entire universe, including you and I, could be boiled down to one object: a vibrating string?
520 million years ago, the oceans teemed with some of the most bizarre animals ever to have lived.
What do boiled bandicoot, smuggled salami and an invisibility cloak have in common?
They breathe air but live underwater, and like their land-dwelling counterparts their bites are venomous.
Nathan Brooks-English usually studies the geological processes that make mountains but on one particular field trip, the thing he learned most about was human connection.