by Admin | Nov 22, 2018 | Blog
Planet Earth needs you! The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has again convened to discuss how to address global warming. Their report, released October 8, has highlighted that to prevent future temperature increases, rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented...
by Admin | Nov 15, 2018 | Blog
Good at maths? Become a scholar… Mathematics is an amazing field of study and, at a fundamental level, it underpins everything in science. The World Science Festival has created a new initiative – the World Science Scholars programme – and it aims to expand upon the...
by Admin | Nov 8, 2018 | Blog
Thinking Outside the ‘Man Box’ To the extent that we let it, society and the media can govern the way we act, think, and view ourselves and others. Of course, this phenomenon greatly affects women. But a recent Australian study has found that men, too, are facing...
by Admin | Oct 31, 2018 | Blog
Competition to Improve Digital Ethics In the wrong hands, digital technologies and the internet can be incredibly damaging. Misinformation, inappropriate content and divisiveness can spread like wild fire by these means. To counteract this, Mozilla’s founder and...
by Admin | Oct 25, 2018 | Blog
Is genetics research biased? Geneticists study genes, heredity, and genetic variation. One of the main reasons they do this is to better understand disease and ageing. But imagine if genetics research focused primarily on one subset of people? Could the subsequent...
by Admin | Oct 18, 2018 | Blog
Enter the “Big Bang” of STEM Competitions Most of us will have heard of “big bang” in some form or another. For example, there’s the nerdy sitcom called the ‘The Big Bang Theory’. Then there’s the other big bang theory – a pretty epic description of how the universe...
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