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  • Rethinking risk in innovation

    Jason Van der Schyff     |      July 13, 2025

    Innovation policy is often built around optimism. But in a world of live contest across the economy, the environment and the broader geostrategic landscape, progress cannot afford to wait for perfection.

  • AI joins the fight against superbugs

    Open Forum     |      July 13, 2025

    For the first time, Australian scientists have used Artificial Intelligence (AI) to generate a ready-to-use antibacterial protein.

  • Feral-free zones spark small mammal boom in the South Australian desert

    Lachlan Gilbert     |      July 13, 2025

    A 26-year study at the Arid Recovery Reserve reveals how removing invasive predators like cats and foxes triggers a dramatic reshaping of desert small mammal communities.

  • Sport is the new religion

    Open Forum     |      July 12, 2025

    The fervent connections which sports fans have to their teams is strikingly similar to religious faith, according to a new book by an Australian expert in sports management.

  • Quantum dreams and realities

    Stephan Robin     |      July 12, 2025

    Despite the impressive and undeniable strides quantum computing has made in recent years, it’s important to remain cautious about sweeping claims regarding its transformative potential.

  • Security isn’t what it used to be

    Justin Bassi     |      July 12, 2025

    When people think of national security, it’s about spies, soldiers and submarines, but these days it’s about much more than those things.

  • Will Segal’s plan reduce antisemitism?

    Matteo Vergani     |      July 11, 2025

    The Albanese government appointed Jillian Segal as the nation’s first special envoy for combating antisemitism and her plan has just been released.

    The plan has now been released. Let’s unpack it.

  • The wrong answers to the right questions

    Frank Rose     |      July 11, 2025

    New York Times columnist David Brooks once remarked that Donald Trump is the wrong answer to the right questions—a sentiment that captures the core challenge facing US policy in East Asia.

  • Student insights inform UNSW review

    Ben Knight     |      July 11, 2025

    The inaugural Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching Symposium, held at UNSW, explored data-driven approaches to enhancing the student experience and learning across Australia.

  • 4 prompts for success with AI

    Sandra Peter     |      July 10, 2025

    As tools such as ChatGPT, Copilot and other generative artificial intelligence systems become part of everyday workflows, more companies are looking for employees who can prompt effectively, think with AI, and use it to boost productivity.

  • Rabbit stew

    Open Forum     |      July 10, 2025

    New research finds that domesticated rabbits evolve quickly to match new environments when they escape into the wild and establish feral breeding populations.

  • Scientists create biological AI system

    Open Forum     |      July 10, 2025

    Australian scientists have successfully developed a research system that uses ‘biological artificial intelligence’ to design and evolve molecules with new or improved functions directly in mammal cells.