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Social Sciences May 19, 2022

COVID has killed 5,600 Australians this year and the pandemic isn't over. Ethics can shape our response

It's difficult to ask, but how many fatalities should Australia accept from COVID in 2022?

Social Sciences Feb 24, 2022

New guidelines to improve practice when babies are separated from parents at birth

Draft guidelines to help improve practice when the state acts to safeguard a baby at birth have been created by researchers at Oxford (the Rees Centre) and Lancaster Universities—and are being tested across England and ...

Plants & Animals Feb 17, 2022

Two new embryos created in race against time to prevent the extinction of the northern white rhinoceros

In two sets of procedures between October 2021 and February 2022 the BioRescue consortium created two new northern white embryos, bringing the total to 14. Oocytes (egg cells) were collected from northern white rhino Fatu ...

Education Jan 3, 2022

AI-powered chatbots, designed ethically, can support high-quality university teaching

While COVID-19 forced an emergency transformation to online learning at universities, learning how to teach efficiently and effectively online using different platforms and tools is a positive addition to education and is ...

Economics & Business Dec 20, 2021

New project details how to reimagine global supply chains to be more equitable, fair

When the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted global production and distribution, it shone a spotlight on the fault lines running through some of the world's supply chains, which—according to a group of Stanford human rights researchers—have ...

Environment Dec 17, 2021

Cobalt's human cost: Social consequences of green energy must be assessed in addition to environmental impacts

While driving an electric car has fewer environmental impacts than gasoline-powered cars, the production of the parts necessary for these green technologies can have dire effects on human well-being.

Social Sciences Dec 14, 2021

New technologies usher in an era of virtuous growth in the discipline of marketing

Madison, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and University of Maryland introduce the special issue on "New Technologies in Marketing" in the Journal of Marketing and provide several frameworks for thinking about how new technologies ...

Plants & Animals Dec 1, 2021

Report calls for animal welfare to be at heart of genome editing plans

A Newcastle University academic has contributed to a new report which says animal welfare must be at the heart of plans to approve new breeding technologies in farming and food production.

Education Nov 26, 2021

Schools are surveying students to improve teaching. But many teachers find the feedback too difficult to act on

Education departments have been investing in feedback-based tools to assess school performance. These include student perception surveys, where students provide feedback on the quality of their learning and their experiences ...

Social Sciences Nov 10, 2021

How do NZ's vaccinated teachers have those hard conversations with their anti-vax colleagues?

The news that all staff members at a small King Country school were still unvaccinated a week out from the government's November 15 mandatory deadline underlines how challenging the weeks ahead might be.

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