Science

Qld: Job Cuts At The CSIRO Put The Great Barrier Reef At Risk Due To Climate Change

March 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

CSIRO scientists play important roles on the Great Barrier Reef Water Science Taskforce – a body set up to save the reef – and other advisory bodies which provide key [...]

Tinder users find love at second swipe

March 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

New research has found people using online dating sites and apps including Tinder are more likely to rate a face as attractive if they thought the preceding face was [...]

Infographic: how fast is the NBN?

March 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

Rod Tucker, University of Melbourne There has been a lot of talk about the National Broadband Network (NBN) in its various guises under the Labor and now Liberal governments. [...]

Australia under-resourced for drug and alcohol treatment

March 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

According to the Medical Journal of Australia, Australia is woefully under-resourced when it comes to the treatment of alcohol and drugs and Australia needs to double its [...]

What causes autism? What we know, don’t know and suspect

February 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

Andrew Whitehouse, University of Western Australia This is a long read, enjoy. Andrew will be answering reader questions from 4pm-5pm AEDST on Friday, February 19. One of the [...]