Before they end us, we can and must end nuclear weapons
Tilman Ruff
On 24 January 1946, the very first resolution of the UN General Assembly called for the ‘elimination from national armaments of atomic weapons’. More than 71 years later, in Conference ...
Best of the old and the new: a way forward for the food security dilemma?
Jill Gready
The challenge of assuring global food security for the world’s increasing population — estimated to reach 9 billion by 2050 — has been much discussed. Many solutions have been proffered, ...
Big Brother walks into an office …
Niels Wouters
A 300% increase in three years; from 200 million in 2017 to 626 million in 2020. This astounding number is the most recent prediction for the total number of surveillance ...
Building the nation will be impossible without engineers
Veena Sahajwalla, Robin Batterham & Cathy Foley
Australian industries need the flexibility, insight and foresight that comes from thinking creatively, asking critical questions, forming and testing hypotheses and reasoning quantitatively — and engineers have the technical knowledge ...
Common genetic conditions
Tiong Yang Tan
There are many different ways that faults in the genetic code can occur. Alterations to the genetic code can arise at any level and can affect gene expression leading to ...
Common medical conditions in which genes play a role
Brian T. Wilson
Genes influence every aspect of a person’s health, from the ability to resist infection with a pathogen, to how medication is metabolised, to mental health and behaviour. Diseases have historically ...
Jill Gready
Best of the old and the new: a way forward for the food security dilemma?
The challenge of assuring global food security for the world’s increasing population — estimated to reach 9 billion by 2050 — has been much discussed ...
Peter Gresshoff
The contrasting need for food and biofuel: Can we afford biofuel?
Our world in the second decade of the 21st century is characterised by extensive growth of the human population (7.2 billion humans in 2014, with ...
John Gunn, Sabine Dittmann & Mike Coffin
Marine science: Challenges for a growing ‘blue economy’
Why are our oceans important to us? How is our health, the health of the environment, the strength of our economy and indeed, our future, ...
Christopher Gyngell and Julian Savulescu
The simple case for germline gene editing
For over three decades, scientists have had the ability to alter the genomes of other species of animals. Using viruses to alter DNA sequences, scientists ...
Andrew Holmes, Mark Buntine & Jenny Martin
Proteins to plastics: chemistry as a dynamic discipline
Chemistry is the most central of scientific disciplines and under- pins the physical, material and biological world. Opportunities are abundant in the field of chemistry, ...
Peter Langridge, Michael D’Occhio & Dana Cordell
Agriculture in Australia: Growing more than our farming future
Food and agriculture are fundamental to human survival and it was the birth of agriculture and farming that laid down the basis for human civilisation ...