Solutions for food systems exist; scaling them is where the challenge lies.
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The world’s huge investment in AI relies on some big assumptions.
Many people will see a dazzling eclipse this April, but these events are possible only because of the sizes and precise distances between Earth, the Moon and the Sun.
Many scientific concepts, including bushfires and climate change, happen at scales outside human perception. So how can we ever understand them?
What can we do as individuals to help save the planet? Acting locally is satisfying because we can see the results, but a geographer argues that large-scale solutions often make the most difference.
Scientific advances – including the recent discovery of gravitational waves – force us to deal with numbers so extreme they’re virtually inconceivable.
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Lecturer in Applied Mathematics and Physics, Griffith University
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Professor of Mathematics, University of Florida
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Researcher, Environmental Philosophy, University of Sydney
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Teaching Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Penn State
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Lecturer of Spatial Sciences, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Director - CGIAR Scaling for Impact, CGIAR