The Best Australian Science Writing 2024

Author: Jackson Ryan (ed.), Carl Smith (ed.)

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The finest voices in Australian science writing.


This much-loved anthology now in its fourteenth year selects the most riveting, entertaining, poignant and fascinating science stories from Australian writers, poets and scientists.


The Best Australian Science Writing 2024 anthologises another major year in science. From AI to the climate crisis, the long tail of the pandemic and the changing nature of what science looks like, there's been plenty of ground to cover over the past year. Science writers have been vital in decoded these at times worrying glimpses of the future, and the many solutions that scientists are working on.


With a foreword by DeadlyScience founder Corey Tutt, this collection includes the shortlisted entries for the 2024 UNSW Press Bragg Prize and the 2023 student prize-winning essay.