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GM crops: to ban or not to ban? That's not the question
The South Australian government recently announced its intention to lift the long-standing statewide moratorium on genetically modified (GM) crops, following a statutory six-week consultation period.
Originally published in The Conversation.
A Hippocratic Oath for data science? We’ll settle for a little more data literacy
I swear by Hypatia, by Lovelace, by Turing, by Fisher (and/or Bayes), and by all the statisticians and data scientists, making them my witnesses, that I will carry ou
Originally published in The Conversation.
Curious Kids: how was maths discovered? Who made up the numbers and rules?
Originally published in The Conversation.
We built a network of greenhouses and rain shelters to simulate what climate change will do to soils
As most of the science community knows, the climate emergency is here now.
Originally published in The Conversation.
Why do different cultures see such similar meanings in the constellations?
Almost every person t
Originally published in The Conversation.
Logged out: farmers in Far North Queensland are being left behind by the digital economy
Farming families and communities in Queensland’s remote north are being left behind by the digital economy, putting them at significant social and econ
Originally published in The Conversation.
How ancient seafarers and their dogs helped a humble louse conquer the world
This is the story of how a parasitic, skin-chewing insect came to conquer the world.
Originally published in The Conversation.
New research shows that Antarctica's largest floating ice shelf is highly sensitive to warming of the ocean
Scientists have long been con
Originally published in The Conversation.
Eye-opening discovery: 54 million year old fossil flies yield new insight into the evolution of sight
Fossilised flies that lived 54 million years ago have revealed a surprising twist to the tale of how insects’ eyes evolved.
Originally published in The Conversation.
Regulating Facebook, Google and Amazon is hard given their bewildering complexity
Back in the 1990s – a lifetime ago
Originally published in The Conversation.
