It’s naïve to point to better viral control and say it’s because of technology alone. Nevertheless, a comparison the coronavirus and SARS outbreaks dramatically highlights…

President Franklin D. Roosevelt broadcasting his first fireside chat, March 12, 1933. National Archives   The president of the United States was speaking to the…

Research has identified key city design types that either exacerbate or lessen the rate of road traffic injuries, the world’s fifth leading cause of death…

In a matter of weeks, coronavirus has changed how students are educated around the world. Those changes give us a glimpse at how education could…

What do all the different pledges to reducing carbon footprints mean, and how can you compare them?…

A quick tour around the world shows countries are in various stages of preparing for and experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic, courtesy of Croakey.

Dung beetles play an important role helping clear up all the dung left by other animals in an environment. But when British colonisers brought livestock…

Australian Statistician David Gruen explains the data-collection and data-aggregation assets in use by the ABS, other government bodies, and universities to shape public policy, and…

Newly published research into a summer heatwave in Adelaide suggests that a simple solution to extreme heat is literally at everyone’s doorstep. It relies on…

Once the big new platforms like frigates and submarines turn up, the US and Australia will need harder-hitting weapons to launch from them, in greater…