Can 'climate corridors' help species adapt to warming world?
Aug 03, 2016 06:18 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
If you flip over a log in a forest in the southeastern U.S., you are likely to find a squirming salamander. A healthy forest floor, full of fallen branches and rotting leaves, provides these amphibians with the...
Sofosbuvir – what's the price of a hepatitis C cure?
Aug 03, 2016 06:16 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Sofosbuvir is one of a number of new direct-acting antiviral drugs revolutionising the care of people living with hepatitis C. Combinations of two or three hepatitis C virus direct-acting antiviral drugs taken for 8-24...
Museum economics: how the contemporary art boom is hurting the bottom line
Aug 03, 2016 06:14 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Business
Americans clearly love their museums, particularly in the summer months. In fact, museum attendance is estimated at about 850 million visits a year, significantly more than all the major league sporting and theme parks...
Why Big Tobacco has reason to fear the waking divestment giant
Aug 03, 2016 06:07 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
This week The Guardian published a long-form profile by veteran journalist Gideon Haigh of Dr Bronwyn King. The doctor who beat big tobacco https://t.co/fIcP2Jmuh6 Guardian Australia (@GuardianAus) August 1,...
Mobile payments and tap and go might not mean the end for tellers
Aug 03, 2016 06:03 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Consumers are drawing out less cash and using other methods to pay for things such as contactless payments, but this doesnt necessarily signal the end of bank tellers or their automated counterparts. There is...
PC sets groundwork for long-awaited look at super competition and efficiency
Aug 03, 2016 06:01 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
The Productivity Commission has released its draft report setting out criteria for assessing the competitiveness and efficiency of the superannuation system. The final report will be delivered in November this year. The...
Turnbull to banks: pass on whole interest rate cut
Aug 03, 2016 05:15 am UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has sternly told the banks they should pass on the whole of Tuesdays rate cut - or their chief executives must explain why they are not doing so. After the Reserve Bank cut the cash rate...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects