Real science, from real scientists, science communicators, writers, artists, clinicians
From regional Australia, we move back top Sydney to meet our next curator, Dr. Rebecca Johnson/@DrRebeccaJ of the Australian Museum. Museums are much more than repositories of stuff: they are hugely important centres for...
Understanding the moods of a vast and fertile planet requires patience, excellent equipment, and excellent scientists. Everywhere is a unique ecosystem with unique flora and fauna, and challenges from agriculture, pollution to invasive species. We thank our...
What happens to ecosystems when humans arrive? What did the planet look like before humans started farming? How do habitats change over time? Our next curator, Associate Professor David Watson of Charles Sturt University, works...
What happens when you can’t decide if you want to be an actor or a scientist? You become an award-winning science communicator and chemistry teacher just like our curator for the past week, Steve...
Scientific research is pursued for many reasons. Curiosity. To solve a problem. To invent something new. The pure pursuit of knowledge. And because the processes of nature that science can reveal are beautiful. It’s...
Another tremendous week of @RealScientists has come and gone under the stewardship of evolutionary geneticist Dr Melissa Wilson Sayres of UC Berkeley. As discussed in her welcome post, Melissa’s main research focus is to...
How shall we measure the health of the planet? Is it measured by the parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere? The acidity of the oceans, the amount of rainfall? It can...
As we observed in a post mid-last-year: sex is bizarre. In an evolutionary sense, in particular. Despite sexual dimorphic species existing throughout animal kingdom, there isn’t a lot in common between the ways different...
