A book that criticizes alternative medicine to treat conditions that have names but no criteria is controversial - because it runs up against a supplement and alternative medicine enabled by governments that believe science can't be trusted
A key part of civilization? Credit: E Photos, CC BY-SA
Deforestation along roads in Rondonia, Brazil. Source: Google EarthBy Bill Laurance, James Cook University“The best thing you could do for the Amazon is to blow up all the roads.” These might sound like the words of an eco-terrorist, but it’s actually a direct quote from Professor Eneas Salati, a forest climatologist and one of Brazil’s most respected scientists.
As early as 2015 China’s use of thermal coal for electricity could peak. Bret Arnett/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SABy James Whitmore, The Conversation
Allergic reactions to food have dramatically increased over the past 10 to 20 years. Dan Peled/AAP, CC BYBy Alexandra Miller, The Conversation and Reema Rattan, The ConversationChanging the bacteria in the gut could treat and prevent life-threatening allergies, according to research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) journal today.
A Liberian nurse disinfects a looted mattress taken from an elementary school that was used as an Ebola isolation unit in West Point, Monrovia, Liberia. AHMED JALLANZO/EPABy Ian Kerridge, University of Sydney and Lyn Gilbert, University of Sydney
What the government sees as a quality university isn’t necessarily the same as what students see. University of Nottingham. Flickr/Simon Paterson, CC BY-SA
By Jane O'Callaghan Kotzmann, Deakin University
Honey bees play a vital role in pollination but their populations are under threat in many parts of the world. Flickr/Paul Stein, CC BY-SA
By Andrew Beattie
Source: IPABy Kerrie Foxwell-Norton, Griffith UniversityIt’s tempting to view The Australian’s latest broadside at the ABC as just another salvo fired between our nation’s two biggest media organisations.
Nottingham Trent University, CC BY-NC-NDBy Alister Scott, Birmingham City University
Shall I compare thee to a novel? No. Tim McFarlane/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SABy David Sweeney, Glasgow School of Art
Emiliania huxleyi, up close and personal. Alison R. Taylor, CC BY
Christine de Pisan instructs her son, Jean de Castel, c.1413. Source: Wikimedia CommonsBy Juanita Feros Ruys, Senior Research Fellow and Associate Director of the Medieval and Early Modern Centre at University of Sydney
