If you study or work in the biosciences, chances are that ‘CRISPR’ has been on your mind for the past five years. That’s Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats. Or, in plain-speak: the easiest, cheapest …
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Countries, coalitions, organisations and communities across the world put enormous effort into countering terrorism. Much of that work is done out of the spotlight, in legislatures, police forces, policy departments, security agencies, social services, academia …
The recent establishment by the Attorney-General and the Treasurer of a Critical Infrastructure Centre (CIC) follows strong media interest in the issue of foreign direct investment in Australian infrastructure, including the leasing of part of …
The Beat Carfentanil ban in China Carfentanil is a powerful opioid used as an elephant tranquillizer. Despite being 10,000 times stronger than morphine, it was possible last year to order kilograms of it on the …
The Beat Doing a number on profiling There’s a push for Victoria Police to collect race and ethnicity data, a move that could help monitor the effectiveness of measures to counter racial profiling. Following a …