Why doesn’t anyone care?
The most legitimate people in climate science met on Monday to deliver a warning to the world’s leaders: global greenhouse gas emissions MUST halt completely by 2050, or we risk…
An Ode to Joyce.
“People in the Kmart, people in the local pub, they don’t care about the Paris agreement, it means nothing to them, it has no purpose” – Barnaby Joyce. The sour-faced…
The Weird and Wonderful World of the Ig Nobel Prize
The annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremonies were begun in 1991 by the Annals of Improbable Research in an effort to “celebrate the unusual, honour the imaginative — and spur people’s…
The Guppy Bachelor: What gets a Guppy going?
A few words on mating preferences and the particulars of match-making in fish, in tribute to the new season of The Bachelor, scheduled to kick off this week. Selection of…
Can Western Science continue to ignore Indigenous Science?
How much longer can science ignore what Indigenous people have known for 50 000 years? A 2017 article in the Journal of Ethnobiology brought worldwide media attention to the Black…
#BadStockPhotosOfMyJob
It’s the end of week 10 and if you’re a science student, this is about the time your cortisol levels begin to rise exponentially and you descend into a constant…
THE LEGACY OF TRUK LAGOON
Not many people know where Micronesia is. Even fewer will ever grace its shores. Even fewer will understand the historical significance of these islands. The history and significance of Truk…
Atomic Frontier’s James Dingley
James Dingley is a second year science student at UWA - Majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Finance. He runs Atomic Frontier - a science channel on Youtube that explores the…
Curing Cancer: The Disease of the Devil
Over the past two decades, Tasmanian Devil populations have been swiftly wiped out from large cancerous tumours. The recent breakthrough led by the University of Tasmania (UTAS) suggests that the…