How to be a scientist

How to be a scientist

It is easy to think like a scientist. You just need to be curious, ask lots of questions and be prepared to go looking for answers. These basic skills come naturally to children, but can be revisited and honed at any age. This post is an introduction to these core science and inquiry skills.

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The circle of life

The circle of life

Food chains are one of the more simple interactions that can be studied in an ecosystem. The key idea, however, is that every organism in a food chain influences and is affected by all other organisms in that food chain as well as the non-living conditions of its habitat.

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More than meets the eye

More than meets the eye

So this week I was privileged to be invited to visit the University of Melbourne’s Electron Microscopy Laboratory. A good friend of mine, @fembotanist, is working on her PhD in Botany and was showing some Masters students around the lab and demonstrating some of the awesome equipment it houses. 

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The significance of a theory

The significance of a theory

An approach some people take to denying climate change, or evolution, or the existence of herd immunity is to simply say "it's just a theory". But what is a scientific theory, and why should they carry more weight than your mate's theory about why a souvlaki tastes better after 1am?

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