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Welcome to Lab 2.0 where computers replace experimental science

  • Written by Timothy Gould, Lecturer in Physics, Griffith University
imageThe Titan Supercomputer, in the US, has allowed scientists to study ice formation on wind turbines at a molecular level.Wikimedia/Oak Ridge National LaboratoryOak Ridge National Laboratory

We spend our lives surrounded by hi-tech materials and chemicals that make our batteries, solar cells and mobile phones work. But developing new technologies...

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Global journalism needs global ethics

  • Written by Christopher Kremmer, Senior Lecturer in Journalism, School of the Arts & Media, UNSW Australia
imageSean Davis, CC BY-NC-SA

There’s an old saying in journalism: “All news is local”. It means that news, wherever it comes from, needs to engage the interest of its local audience if it is to succeed. But read today’s paper, or turn to the nightly television news broadcast, or just check your phone right now, and it’s...

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Let's talk about the family home ... and its exemption from the pension means test

  • Written by Rachel Ong, Deputy Director, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University
imageOlder Australians choosing to downsize or access their home equity face tax penalties.Image sourced from shutterstock.com

Late last year a Productivity Commission report found including the family home in the means test for the age pension could deliver the government A$6 billion in much-needed revenue.

Despite this, in the lead-up to the federal...

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South Australia's electricity price woes are more due to gas than wind

  • Written by Hugh Saddler, Honorary Associate Professor, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Australian National University
imageUnder a cloud: South Australia's wind farms have been blamed for price spikes, but without them the volatility would be even worse.Tim Phillips Photos/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

The past few weeks have seen extraordinarily high wholesale electricity prices in South Australia, averaging (as of 23 July) A$321 per megawatt hour, compared with A$80...

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More Articles ...

  1. 'You'll need my fingerprint': are police allowed to search your phone?
  2. Hubble explores the Final Frontier
  3. Wealth inequality shows superannuation changes are overdue
  4. Five ways the Coalition can get innovation back on track
  5. We can't see the war for the memorials: balancing education and commemoration
  6. Teaching phonics skills alongside reading raises literacy achievement among Indigenous children
  7. There's a world of difference between sex and sexism in advertising
  8. Teenage pain often dismissed as 'growing pains', but it can impact their lives
  9. Your postcode shouldn't determine your health – or whether you're admitted to hospital
  10. There's a time to put down the smartphone, seriously!
  11. Turnbull presses premiers for quick action on post-sentencing regime for terrorism prisoners
  12. Wong wins foreign affairs in Shorten's new frontbench line up
  13. Censored Thoughts on the Fate of Turkish Democracy
  14. What animal could a democracy be? Ape, fox, lion ... how about jellyfish?
  15. Trump and the Ugliness of the Charm Defensive
  16. Plibersek moves to high profile education job in ALP reshuffle
  17. How Russian doping could lead to Rio 2016 ban
  18. Turkey’s almost coup and the need for perspective
  19. Shorten provides Kim Carr with life raft
  20. Government needs to get balance right in regulating agriculture
  21. Asia’s 'shoot-to-kill' republic? The rising body count of the Philippines’ 'war on drugs'
  22. Is the end of Zika nigh? How populations develop immunity
  23. How gross inequality and crushed hopes have fed the rise of Donald Trump
  24. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the frontbench reshuffles
  25. What we really need from innovation in Australia
  26. Calls for deradicalisation programs after Nice attack should be met with caution
  27. How we lock accounts on The Conversation
  28. Five tips to get the government started on real health reform
  29. FactCheck Q A: has the Grand Mufti of Australia condemned terrorist attacks overseas?
  30. Friday essay: secrets of the Delphic Oracle and how it speaks to us today
  31. What Australia can learn from England's plan for vocational education
  32. Italians again migrate to Australia, but experience work exploitation
  33. Turnbull orders review of local threat from lone wolf extremists
  34. Inner-city bias: the suburbs need a fair go
  35. 'Slapped cheek' syndrome: a common rash in kids, more sinister in pregnant women
  36. New cancer treatment? Scientists have programmed bacteria to kill cancer cells in mice
  37. Apple is taking its first steps towards a more comprehensive post-PC world
  38. Science by stealth: secret missions of a visual science communicator
  39. Grattan on Friday: Time for Labor and Greens to find common ground with government on marriage plebiscite
  40. The Cold Logic of Doing Good
  41. Politics podcast: Jim Chalmers on Labor's approach to the economy
  42. Your guide to see five planets after sunset
  43. Australia ranks 20th on progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals
  44. Xenophon and Katter's concerns over Ausgrid sale ring hollow
  45. Blood pressure targets – what does the new guideline say and how low should you go?
  46. Here's how to close the gap on Indigenous women smoking during pregnancy
  47. Politics serves as therapy when Trump takes the stage
  48. Smoothies as talismans: the allure of superfoods and the dangers of nutritional primitivism
  49. Why we need to hear what controversial people say and not silence the debate
  50. Grey dawn or the twilight years? Let’s talk about growing old
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