News & events Opinion Read the latest opinion articles inspired by science. Wild animals are evolving faster than anybody thought To measure the speed of adaptive evolution in the wild, we studied 19 populations of birds and mammals over several decades. We found they were evolving at twice to four times the speed suggested by earlier work. Read the article - Any -Astronomy & AstrophysicsScience CommunicationPhysicsEarth & Marine SciencesEngineeringChemistryBiologyEnvironment & SustainabilityMathematics Tue, 20 Apr 2021 Looking at the stars, or falling by the wayside? How astronomy is failing female scientists It will take until at least 2080 before women make up just one-third of Australia’s professional astronomers, unless there is a significant boost to how we nurture female researchers’ careers. Read the article Fri, 26 Mar 2021 Managed retreat of settlements remains a tough call even as homes flood and coasts erode Today's risks will be tomorrow's normal. That means tough decisions have to be made about human settlements having to retreat from areas most at risk, whether from floods or bushfires. Read the article Fri, 26 Mar 2021 Yes, Australia is a land of flooding rains. But climate change could be making it worse The NSW floods are a textbook example of the theoretical impacts we can expect on Australian rainfall as climate change continues. Read the article Fri, 05 Mar 2021 Fires bring home climate-driven urgency of rethinking where we live – and how The unprecedented intensity of two summers of bushfires, first in the east and then in the west, offered harsh lessons for Australians. One is that some settlements must retreat from high-risk areas. Read the article Wed, 10 Feb 2021 Australia must control its killer cat problem. A major new report explains how, but doesn’t go far enough Cats kill a staggering 1.7 billion native animals each year, and threaten at least 120 species with extinction. Five experts analyse a parliamentary report on the problem. Read the article Mon, 18 Jan 2021 3 reasons to study science communication beyond the West All cultures have communicated their knowledge in diverse and marvellous ways throughout time. Failing to see the significance of this is racist and lazy. Read the article Wed, 09 Dec 2020 The Hayabusa2 spacecraft is about to drop a chunk of asteroid in the Australian outback Scientists hope samples of asteroid Ryugu may reveal traces of the chemical ingredients that formed life on Earth. Read the article Tue, 01 Dec 2020 Ancient Earth had a thick, toxic atmosphere like Venus – until it cooled off and became liveable Unlike our hellish neighbour Venus, Earth was far enough from the Sun for liquid water to form and create a more hospitable environment for life. Read the article Tue, 24 Nov 2020 Ancient sponges or just algae? New research overturns chemical evidence for the earliest animals Ancient fatty molecules, once believed to be traces of some of the first animals to live on Earth, may have been produced by algae instead. Read the article Pagination First page « Previous page ‹ Page 3 Page 4 Current page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Next page › Last page »