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The Best Australian Science Writing 2020
About this book
The annual collection—now in its tenth year—celebrating the finest voices in Australian science writing. Can fish feel pain? Does it matter if a dingo is different from a dog? Is there life in a glob of subterranean snot? Science tackles some unexpected questions. At a time when the world is buffeted by the effects of a pandemic, climate change, and accelerating technology, the fruits of scientific labour and enquiry have never been more in demand. Who better to navigate us through these unprecedented days than Australia's best science writers? Now in its tenth year, this much-loved anthology selects the most riveting, poignant, and entertaining science stories and essays from Australian writers, poets, and scientists. In their expert hands such ordinary objects as milk and sticky tape become imbued with new meaning, while the furthest reaches of our universe are made more familiar and comprehensible. With a foreword from Nobel laureate and immunologist Peter C Doherty, this collection brings fresh perspective to the world you thought you knew.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Foreword: Science writing for normal and not-so-normal times
- Introduction: Seeing the world with fresh eyes
- Stranger things
- The repeating signals from deep space are extremely unlikely to be aliens – here’s why
- An identity crisis for the Australian dingo
- Bovine friends forever
- The milk of human genius
- Underwater and underrated
- Barnacles are a clock for the dead
- Case of the missing frogs
- Black ice night, frogmouth
- Bringing home the ancestors
- The Murray–Darling’s dry mouth
- Enigmatic Australian rock art dated using wasps’ nests
- The making of mammals
- Meet the families
- Climate change denial and inaction – we are (almost) all deniers, of one kind or another
- Listening to Antarctica
- Gone with the wind
- Jeepers creepers
- How well prepared are we to deal with a catastrophic asteroid strike?
- What is pathogen sovereignty?
- The perfect virus – two gene tweaks that turned COVID-19 into a killer
- Synchrotrons on the coronavirus frontline
- Gravitational waves
- A frozen object from interstellar space is about to hurtle past Mars
- True grit
- Revealed – the physics of sticky tape
- The good earth
- Sixteen zoo staff. More than 200 animals. An encroaching fire. The rescue operation that became the pride of Mogo
- More help needed for scientists on the frontline of ecosystem loss
- The marsupial doomsday vault
- For risky research with great potential, dive deep
- Brain wave
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- The UNSW Press Bragg Student Prize for Science Writing 2019 Winner: Not-so-smart technology: The science (or lack thereof) behind period and fertility trackers