Opinion
Read the latest opinion articles inspired by science.
Read the latest opinion articles inspired by science.
While the prospect of relocation can be unsettling and traumatic for residents, it offers new opportunities and long-term benefits. But we must act now.
Read the articleNow begins a long and difficult process to recover vast areas of forest after more than 50 years of clearfelling and other destructive logging practices. It’s a huge job, but it can be done. Here's an outline of what’s needed.
This is the first time an assessment of boundaries has quantified the harms to people from changes to the Earth system.
While Australia is the last continent to be invaded by the vorroa mite, it has an opportunity to be the first to eradicate it.
How do we find enough people with the skills necessary to grow the space technology sector?
Until recently we had very little idea when butterflies evolved, and hypotheses concerning their place of origin were largely educated guesses.
Growing up queer in Townsville, Emily Standen knows about the importance of role models: "I don't think that I really thought queer people could be scientists. So from my own experience, I know that it's hard to be what you can't see. You can definitely do it - someone has to be the first - but it's not an easy thing to do.”
We have successfully used a new technique – involving light from an exploding star that arrived at Earth via multiple winding routes through the expanding Universe – to measure how fast the Universe is expanding.
On Star Wars Day we take a look at some of the things that keep us coming back to one of the most famous science fiction epics of all time.