The Best Australian Science Writing 2025
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The Best Australian Science Writing 2025

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eBook - ePub

The Best Australian Science Writing 2025

About this book

How do insects experience consciousness? Do whales have a language? How liveable are exoplanets – and should we care? This much-loved anthology – now in its fifteenth year – selects the most riveting, entertaining, poignant and fascinating science stories from Australian writers, poets and scientists. The Best Australian Science Writing 2025 anthologises another landmark year in science. From AI to the climate crisis and the changing nature of what science looks like, there' s been plenty of ground to cover. Science writers have been vital in decoding these – at times worrying – glimpses of the future, and the many solutions that scientists are working on. With a foreword by Scientia Professor Veena Sahajwalla, this collection includes the shortlisted entries for the 2025 UNSW Press Bragg Prize.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword: The need for a sustainable future
  7. Introduction: A constellation of bright minds
  8. The night I accidentally became a corpse flower’s bedside manservant
  9. Humanoid robots: Made in our image
  10. Mathematical transformations: The power of vectors and tensors
  11. Solomon Islands tribes sell carbon credits, not their trees
  12. Cat-astrophe: Australia’s feral cat problem
  13. When did your kidney stone start growing? ANTSO scientist carbon dated his to find out
  14. China’s race for fusion energy
  15. ‘Earth poetry’ in the Arctic
  16. Fishing for a glacier’s secrets
  17. Is this actually PTSD? Clinicians divided over redefining borderline personality disorder
  18. A freediver finds belonging without breath
  19. Faster higher stronger doper
  20. Insect consciousness
  21. Air conditioning quietly changed Australian life in just a few decades
  22. Mirror molecules: The twisted problem of chemical chirality
  23. How surviving a deadly animal encounter is not the end of the trauma
  24. Some psychedelic medicine developers want to ditch the therapy aspect. What could go wrong?
  25. A snowflake in hell
  26. Staying faithful to Earth: A meditation on our planetary kin in the universe
  27. Whale talk
  28. Gaza: Why is it so hard to establish the death toll?
  29. Sounds of the slow-rolling sea
  30. Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Mae Jemison, Carolyn Beatrice Parker
  31. Smooth fade
  32. Why can’t we remember our lives as babies or toddlers?
  33. Using trash to track other trash
  34. Alternative accommodation
  35. Ethical problems continue to plague biometric studies of Chinese minority groups
  36. From hypnotised to heretic: Immunising society against misinformation
  37. Skink on the brink
  38. My partner and I both have long COVID. We tread the underworld together
  39. Moments of kindness in a regional hospital
  40. Mystery seismic waves that rippled around Earth for nine days caused by Greenland tsunami: Study
  41. The world has been its hottest on record for ten months straight. Scientists can’t fully explain why
  42. Why some venomous snakes can bite and kill even when they’re dead and decapitated
  43. A museum heist 70 years ago is still causing a flutter in butterfly science today
  44. Stanford prison experiment: Why the lead psychologist defended his infamous study to the end
  45. Deep time encounters in the garden
  46. The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements
  47. Contributors
  48. Acknowledgements
  49. The UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing 2025 Shortlist
  50. The UNSW Press Bragg Student Prize for Science Writing 2024 Winner: Biodiversity and community: Butterfly counts
  51. Advisory panel