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Rethinking risk in innovation
Jason Van der Schyff | July 13, 2025Innovation 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.
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AI joins the fight against superbugs
Open Forum | July 13, 2025For the first time, Australian scientists have used Artificial Intelligence (AI) to generate a ready-to-use antibacterial protein.
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Feral-free zones spark small mammal boom in the South Australian desert
Lachlan Gilbert | July 13, 2025A 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.
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Sport is the new religion
Open Forum | July 12, 2025The 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.
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Quantum dreams and realities
Stephan Robin | July 12, 2025Despite 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.
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Security isn’t what it used to be
Justin Bassi | July 12, 2025When people think of national security, it’s about spies, soldiers and submarines, but these days it’s about much more than those things.
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Will Segal’s plan reduce antisemitism?
Matteo Vergani | July 11, 2025The 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.
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The wrong answers to the right questions
Frank Rose | July 11, 2025New 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.
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Student insights inform UNSW review
Ben Knight | July 11, 2025The inaugural Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching Symposium, held at UNSW, explored data-driven approaches to enhancing the student experience and learning across Australia.
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4 prompts for success with AI
Sandra Peter | July 10, 2025As 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.
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Rabbit stew
Open Forum | July 10, 2025New research finds that domesticated rabbits evolve quickly to match new environments when they escape into the wild and establish feral breeding populations.
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Scientists create biological AI system
Open Forum | July 10, 2025Australian 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.
