Continuing to deliver on its election commitment, the Malinauskas government has just announced the recipients of the second round of Experience Nature Tourism Fund grants with 15 products and experiences supported across South Australia. Designed to showcase the state’s natural landscapes and help attract domestic and international visitors, the fund already created new world-class tourism…

The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston says it is seeking retractions of six papers authored by its researchers.Credit: Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty The prestigious Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) in Boston, Massachusetts, acknowledged this week that it would seek retractions for 6 papers and corrections for an additional 31 — some co-authored by…

Kentucky Perfect, installation by Robert Hengeveld, 2019. Installation view at Latvian National Museum of Art. Photo: Didzis Grodzs. As many people question our increased reliance on AI and technology, the growing friction between what we consider natural and artificial will be explored at NOT NATURAL, a new exhibition at Science Gallery Melbourne open from 17…

Mexico City has used research to inform policymaking for decades, but scientists struggle to get such work published in international journals.Credit: Getty The numbers say it all: cities are hugely important to the world’s future but face big challenges. More than half of the world’s nearly eight billion people live in a city. Of those,…

Credit: Keith Morris/Hay Ffotos/Alamy John Heilbron’s intellectual rigour transformed how scholars approach the history of science. The intersection of people, scientific ideas and institutions was his domain, ranging from early modern European astronomy to the revolution of twentieth-century physics. The author of more than 20 books, Heilbron was known for his razor-sharp analysis and perceptive…

Several thousand top companies have set targets to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions through the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), widely considered the ‘gold standard’ for corporate climate…

More practitioners are needed to support the open-science movement to disseminate materials such as bacterial DNA plasmids.Credit: Daniela Beckmann/Science Photo Library Lenny Teytelman can still recall his days as a PhD student 20 years ago when he accessed public databases for his studies in yeast genetics. “My research would be technically impossible had researchers not…

From the top of Mount Everest to the deepest ocean trench, pieces of plastic are found almost everywhere on Earth. Specks have even been found in human blood and breast milk. This pervasiveness is just one aspect of a global crisis that encompasses the entire life cycle of plastics. More than 95% of plastics are…

Artist’s impression of the SLIM spacecraft coming in for landing on the Moon.Credit: JAXA Japan has become the fifth country to soft-land a spacecraft on the Moon, using precision technology that allowed it to touch down closer to its target landing site than any mission has before. However, the spacecraft might have survived on the…