Global warming may boost demand for Australian wheat exports

The gap between high wheat producing and low wheat producing countries is set to widen under 2°C of global warming, increasing some countries’ reliance on imports according to Australian and international researchers.

Lifestyle factors cause half the global cancer toll

Smoking, alcohol, obesity and other known risk factors were responsible for nearly 4.45 million global cancer deaths in 2019, according to new research published in The Lancet.

Climate change threatens Australian food chains

Australian scientists have used computer modelling to investigate the effects of climate change and extreme weather events on the country’s food supply chains.

Optimising social housing conditions

New social and public housing research offers insight into the situations many Victorians found themselves in during the pandemic.

Into the dark

A kilometre under the ground in Stawell, in the Northern Grampians in Victoria, a team of Aussie scientists have put the final touches on an underground lab that will help us understand the nature of our universe.

How commercial satellites are helping Ukraine

Satellites owned by private companies have played an important role in the war in Ukraine, exposing Russian lies and atrocities and helping the defenders repel the invaders.

Backyard birds in decline

The numbers and diversity of birds in our urban spaces is in steep decline as gardens and green spaces are developed for housing.

China’s propaganda war over Xinjiang

China’s online propaganda operations deny, distract and deter voices critical of Bejing’s oppression of Uyghurs by flooding social media with positive depictions of Xinjiang and whitewashing evidence of human rights abuses.

Cast iron facts about tin-foil hats

It may seem like more and more people are falling prey to increasingly bizarre conspiracy theories such as QAnon and flat Earth ‘theory’, but such beliefs may actually not have increased over time, according to US and UK researchers.

Be mindful of evidence for mindfullness in schools

Mindfulness training in schools has been suggested as a useful tool to improve teenage mental health and well being, but the results of 5 studies, published online in a special issue of Evidence Based Mental Health, show little or no evidence it works.

Seeds from the sky

More than 52 million hectares of Australia are now considered degraded land but the planting of native trees and shrubs by drones could help to restore them.

Late invoices blow out as businesses feel the squeeze

New data from funding solutions company OptiPay shows businesses are taking longer to pay their bills as the global recession kicks in and SMEs begin to succumb to cash flow pressures.