The review of the Co-operative Research Centre (CRC) program will help to ensure more flexible and demand-driven public good research projects, believes Ken Baldwin.

Low technology has opportunities for our manufacturing industries and jobs, and is a fast way to help cut carbon emissions, writes Valerie Yule.

Only days after being announced as chief scientist, Professor Penny D Sackett has made it clear she intends to keep the role as independent from government as possible.

Innovations come from unexpected directions: the greatest contribution by a government is to ensure a well educated and technically literate community, believes Tom Quirk.

Climate-change reporting is woefully inadequate because too often editors lack interest and assign writers without expertise, says James Fahn.

Eighty-four per cent of Australians would support increased 'alcopop' and tobacco tax, if the money was used for preventative health programs, research has found.

Both Canada and Australia are increasing migration, but at what cost to their respective ecosystems, questions Tim Murray.

Do syllabus pressures get in the way of good teaching?

Now that a carbon trading scheme in Australia is becoming a reality, many are questioning whether it is really going to be worth it. Mark Morrison argues that the answer is yes, once people realise household incomes will continue to increase.

Dr Terry Cutler's Review of the National Innovation System is a timely signal to government and industry that Australia needs to reinvigorate and better fund innovation, believes Robin Batterham, president of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences.

Marine researchers are asking for the whole Coral Sea, east of the Great Barrier Reef, to be made a no-fishing area in response to declining populations.

The Prime Minister has raised the spectre of 'exceptional or extreme drought' every one or two years. What does the science say?

Garnaut’s targets are not enough to get us where we want to go, according to Amanda McKenzie and Anna Rose.

The global food shortage isn't just an agricultural problem, it affects environmental, defence and refugee policies, and there is no quick fix solution, argues Julian Cribb.

A Queensland researcher has found that future carbon trading schemes could be seriously undermined by the lack of adequate legal reform.