• Pacific

    The Pacific welcomes its first Science Academy


    Open Forum |  October 23, 2024


    The launch of the Pacific Academy of Sciences and the election of 12 eminent scholars as Foundation Fellows will provide a strong voice for science in the region.


  • Artificial Intelligence

    Have a new kidney – thanks to AI


    Open Forum |  October 23, 2024


    A new artificial intelligence tool developed by an international team renal doctors internationally will help predict and potentially improve outcomes for kidney transplant patients.


  • Transport

    Electric car sales are slumping


    Milad Haghani |  October 23, 2024


    Far from increasing exponentially, the sales of electric cars in Australia and elsewhere in the world are flatlining or falling due to reduced government incentives and concerns about resale values and fires.


Latest Story

  • Eve of destruction

    Open Forum     |      October 14, 2024

    An international team of scientists warns the Earth is entering a critical and unpredictable new phase of the climate crisis.

  • Do Australians really care about climate change?

    Open Forum     |      October 13, 2024

    An annual climate action survey has revealed public concern over the Great Barrier Reef and nuclear power but Australians affected by the cost-of-living crisis seem less enthusiastic about radical climate change action.

  • Nerve pain game enters clinical trials

    Open Forum     |      October 13, 2024

    Sydney Researchers have developed a game-like way of helping users with chronic pain manage their discomfort.

  • Unknown unknowns

    Open Forum     |      October 12, 2024

    New experimental data support the idea that people tend to assume the information they have is adequate to comprehend a given situation, without considering that they might be lacking key information.

  • AI to the rescue

    Open Forum     |      October 12, 2024

    The concept of an AI chat bot delivering postcode-specific disaster information developed by psychology postgraduate students at James Cook University won the 2024 Disaster Challenge.

  • Boosting indigenous employment

    Open Forum     |      October 11, 2024

    A new study from the Australian National University has found that Indigenous-owned businesses in Australia employ Indigenous staff at a rate 12 times higher than non-Indigenous-owned firms.

  • Slippery slope

    Samuel Cornell     |      October 11, 2024

    Social media posts of risky escapades at spectacular locations are still encouraging a stampede of copycats with sometimes disastrous results.

  • Securing security in the Pacific

    Blake Johnson     |      October 11, 2024

    It’s time for the Pacific to talk about ground rules in the security sector.

  • The flight from China

    Zhuowen Li     |      October 10, 2024

    The current flight of foreign capital investment in China is a sign of changing geopolitical and economic realities and will further weaken the Chinese economy in the long term.

  • Juice it up

    Per Henningsgaard     |      October 10, 2024

    Tim Winton’s first novel in 6 years is set hundreds of years in the future when climate change has rendered large parts of the globe uninhabitable.

  • The dirty side of greenwashing

    Seda Yildirim     |      October 10, 2024

    There can be a fine line between green marketing and greenwashing but some businesses practices are clearly dishonest and deliberately misleading.

  • Protecting our under-sea cables

    Jocelinn Kang     |      October 9, 2024

    Subsea cables are the backbone of our global communication system and as the economic and security value of data continues to grow, it’s crucial that an island nation such as Australia protects this critical infrastructure.