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Becoming a Spacefaring Civilisation ā€” and Saving Earth

Nov 19, 2021
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Back From Extinction: Discovering the ā€˜Jurassic Pinesā€™

May 25, 2021
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Anatomy of a Monster Storm

Mar 22, 2021
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Down to Earth: How Wilderness Soils Make Us Healthier

May 5, 2020
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The Good Earth

Nov 25, 2019
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Why Is Water Vanishing Worldwide? Drying Soils, Say Researchers

Jun 7, 2019
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Changing Minds: ā€˜Just the Factsā€™ Ainā€™t Enough

Jun 5, 2019
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Power Shift: The Battery Revolution Has Begun

Jun 2, 2019
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FEATURE | Power Shift

Mar 1, 2019
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OBITUARY | Tributes for UNSW researcher who revolutionised solar cell technology

Jan 16, 2018
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MAGAZINE | Power up

Sep 6, 2017
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OPINION | No silver bullets

Jan 23, 2015
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FEATURE | Man on a Mission

Oct 1, 2014
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OPINION | Mother of All Challenges

Apr 1, 2013
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OPINION | You Have Been Warned

Dec 1, 2012
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OPINION | ā€˜Just the Factsā€™ Ainā€™t Enough

Jun 1, 2012
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FEATURE | Rethinking the Worldā€™s Energy

Apr 1, 2012
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The Equinox Summit: Imagining a lower-carbon, electrified future

Feb 1, 2012
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OPINION | The Sad, Sad Demise of Greenpeace

Aug 1, 2011
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OPINION | Getting Serious

Jun 1, 2011
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Becoming a Spacefaring Civilisation ā€” and Saving Earth

We need to expand beyond Earth, but not abandon it ā€” just stop relying on Earth as our only quarry...

Nov 19, 2021
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Back From Extinction: Discovering the ā€˜Jurassic Pinesā€™

They should have died out with the dinosaurs, but their seedlings are now being nurtured back from...

May 25, 2021
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Anatomy of a Monster Storm

When wild weather hammered Australiaā€™s east coast, researchers leapt into action, collecting the...

Mar 22, 2021
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Down to Earth: How Wilderness Soils Make Us Healthier

Why are rural people healthier than city folk? It turns out itā€™s the diversity of bacteria in the...

May 5, 2020
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The Good Earth

The more diverse the microbe community in the soils around us, and the more you are exposed to it,...

Nov 25, 2019
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Why Is Water Vanishing Worldwide? Drying Soils, Say Researchers

Raghu Murtugudde, a professor Atmospheric and Oceanic Science and Earth System Science at the...

Jun 7, 2019
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Changing Minds: ā€˜Just the Factsā€™ Ainā€™t Enough

My fear was confirmed at , a gathering of science journalists and social researchers at the...

Jun 5, 2019
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Power Shift: The Battery Revolution Has Begun

Their biggest drawback is safety. The electrolyte fluid sitting between the positive and negative...

Jun 2, 2019
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FEATURE | Power Shift

Our energy system is woefully antiquated and based on a preposterously rickety 19th century...

Mar 1, 2019
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OBITUARY | Tributes for UNSW researcher who revolutionised solar cell technology

Stuart Wenham, UNSW solar cell researcher. Born July 15, 1957. Died December 23, aged 60.By Wilson...

Jan 16, 2018
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MAGAZINE | Power up

By Wilson da SilvaIn an energy-hungry world, battery storage is the way of the future....

Sep 6, 2017
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OPINION | No silver bullets

Wilson da Silva looks at some innovative ideas in energy storage.NOT ENOUGH, AND TOO much: thatā€™s...

Jan 23, 2015
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FEATURE | Man on a Mission

Australia's Chief Scientist is fighting the good fight, spearheading the effort to have science...

Oct 1, 2014
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OPINION | Mother of All Challenges

Hereā€™s what I think is going to happen over the next 50 years.By Wilson da SilvaANY DAY NOW, I will...

Apr 1, 2013
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OPINION | You Have Been Warned

Hurricane Sandy did more than cripple New York and kill hundreds ā€“ it brought climate change out of...

Dec 1, 2012
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OPINION | ā€˜Just the Factsā€™ Ainā€™t Enough

Simply presenting people with evidence does not alter beliefs, especially those that are deeply...

Jun 1, 2012
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FEATURE | Rethinking the Worldā€™s Energy

Can we really shift the world completely away from fossil fuels in the next 20 years? A brave band...

Apr 1, 2012
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The Equinox Summit: Imagining a lower-carbon, electrified future

Participants in an innovative gathering of the Waterloo Global Science Initiative set about...

Feb 1, 2012
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OPINION | The Sad, Sad Demise of Greenpeace

Science is not a belief system we can opt in and out of depending on our ideological or political...

Aug 1, 2011
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OPINION | Getting Serious

Governments have tried to deal with climate change and failed. The world has tried diplomacy, but...

Jun 1, 2011
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