Science

While many of us have enjoyed down time between semesters, one staple of life at Monash University hasn’t stopped: the greenwashing of the climate emergency by Woodside Energy.     Heralding its name from the small town of Woodside in Victoria, this is not the only thing the Gas company has adopted to portray a clean image. Most known to Monash University students is the Woodside Building for Technology and Design.    For most, this building serves as a shiny, eco-friendly building which you might enter for an engineering unit. The inside boasts glassy panels, elevators and beautiful interiors and classrooms.

  New findings in Australian Archaeology, what it means, and why it is important A recently published article from the University of Queensland, titled ‘Human occupation of Northern Australia by 65,000 years ago’, provides crucial evidence for early human colonisation of Australia. Although research is still being conducted at the site of Madjedbebe, Kakadu National Park, the redating of the evidence lead by Dr Chris Clarkson suggests the colonisation of Australia predates preconceived theories by 18,000 years. Therefore, this new data questions the migration of humans out of Africa, and ultimately, what it means to be an Australian. While Madjedbebe

Hang on, didn’t we read this article last time? No, last edition we learnt about the latest on anti-matter. Today, we’ll be exploring the intricacies of dark matter. To comprehend the concept of dark matter, one must first understand what matter is. Matter is anything that occupies space and has mass. Generally, to us, matter is made up of atoms. So what about dark matter then? In the early 1930s, Fitz Zwicky, an astronomer from the California Institute of Technology, discovered the gravitational effects of dark matter while studying the movement of galaxies in the Coma Cluster, a cluster of