Geneticist Paul Nurse on his Nobel Prize-winning discovery, the importance of failure, and a revelation about his own origins.
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Scientists on the art that has inspired them. Artists on the science that has inspired them.
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Scientists are studying them to help protect endangered host species.
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2023 Wheelwright Lecture Speaker: Professor Heidi Norman, 'Not Going Away: First People and the Australian Economy'.
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Can tiny forests deliver on big environmental problems?
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Sixty years later, will anybody have heard of COVID-19?
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In June 2023 Political Economy at the University of Sydney hosted a discussion on Jamie Martin's new book, The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire and the Birth of Global Economic Governance (Harvard University Press). Jamie gave a presentation on the book, and Martijn Konings was the discussant. Today we are publishing a recording of the event, along with an edited transcript of Martijn's contribution and Jamie's response.
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Richard Dawkins’ hypothesis buries a crucial part of life’s story.
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In some deep aquifers, cells have a chemical trick that could sustain whole underground ecosystems.
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Astronomers are learning to decode the meanings hidden in stellar songs.
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