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Covering subjects from black holes to sleep science, a geophysicist explains his new course.
Portrait of Ada Lovelace – mathematician and poet.
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Poets and scientists don’t occupy separate poles in the quest to understand the universe. In many ways, they sing from the same hymn sheet.
Gravity helps stars to form.
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Gravity exists because the universe is full of ‘stuff’ – here’s how it came to be.
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes in his laboratory in Leiden.
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How was superconductivity discovered? It all began in April 1911, in a Dutch laboratory…
Mining accounts for about half of Australia’s exports. In terms of ‘economic complexity’, the nation ranks 59th in the world, between Kazakhstan and Lebanon.
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Innovation and industry policy is receiving the least attention just when it may matter most to our economic future.
Not everyone trusts that science will bring benefits to society.
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In Australia, the next government will need to meet the challenge of refreshing the social licence between science, government and the many and diverse communities that make up our nation.
Leonardo da Vinci had a seemingly inexhaustible imagination for innovation.
Engineer, artist, mathematician, thinker: Leonardo da Vinci was all these and more.
Assistant professor of chemistry Sidney Wilkerson-Hill, left, in a chemistry lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with Bolatito Babatunde, a student in the Chancellor’s Science Scholars program at UNC.
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Researchers find promising results for two programs patterned after the Meyerhoff Scholars Program, a renowned initiative launched at UMBC in the 1980s and known to increase diversity in STEM.
‘Design for a giant crossbow.’
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As Leonardo da Vinci found centuries ago, scholars of art, design, engineering and science can work together for mutual benefit.
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Quantum physics and its mysteries… And what if this supposedly incomprehensible science weren’t so difficult for non-scientists to understand?
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This explains why some aspects of English can be hard to learn for speakers of other languages.
Seen here with the Prime Minister, Karen Andrews is one of few recent ministers for science who has a university education in STEM.
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We’ve had ten federal ministers with titular responsibility for science since 2007 – five under the coalition and five under Labor. That variation and a lack of consistent vision has an impact.
The sea is blue because of the way water absorbs light, the way particles in the water scatter light, and also because some of the blue light from the sky is reflected.
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Photons stream from the sun and interact with all matter on Earth. Depending on what the light touches, some of the photons will get absorbed or soaked up. And some will bounce back.
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Autistic and artistic, you can be both.
If it’s fake, it’s not news.
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Science is not the absolute truth. Scientific findings are the beginning, not the end, of the quest for truth.
Most of us make daily decisions about who we choose to work and collaborate with. So what if we used that to improve professional diversity?
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A confession: I can count on a single hand the number of women I have invited to collaborate with me on publications and grants.
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We talk about artistic inspiration all the time – but science demands inspiration too.
Mature women students face additional barriers when enrolling in STEM programs.
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With changing student demographics, STEM programs need to provide different supports to accommodate the needs of women returning to education after a break.
Our decision-making and conduct is influenced by what we read, see or hear.
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February 26, 2019
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Science is a part of everyday life. Science journalists can do more to connect science to the public.
The study of caribou ecology in the Sahtú region of Canada’s Northwest Territories shows how western science and Indigenous Traditional Knowledge are used together.
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Science is a multicultural enterprise that benefits from and indeed requires competing views.