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Like all good health care, improving health in remote settings requires an evidence base. But forcing all research questions into the randomised controlled trial model is not the answer.
Blood-detection dogs work paw in hand with scientists and Australia’s police to solve crimes and missing persons cases.
In the marriage equality debate as in any other, media outlets must balance the right to freedom of speech with the balance of evidence.
Forget Wonder Woman and Batman. The Maid of Orléans - an uneducated, teenage girl who led armies to victory - is a hero for our times.
Smart city thinking makes good use of rapidly developing technology to help make cities work better, easier-to-navigate, safer, healthier and more enjoyable places to live.
Is pointing out the negative health effects of overweight and obesity “fat shaming”?
The Reserve Bank of Australia is stuck, according to the economic evidence, it has to raise rates but it also should cut.
Humpback whales are deterred from their migration routes by the noise of air guns used to survey the ocean floor for oil and gas deposits, a new study has found.
Malcolm Turnbull is an optimist, or so he always tells us, and he’ll be looking at how things could all work out for the best in the best of worlds.
Dallas Rogers speaks with Nicole Gurran about the rise of AirBnb and what the limited data publicly available can tell us about how it's blurring the line between residential property and tourism.
Businesses can use their purchasing power to change the actions of their suppliers and help to eradicate slavery - both in Australia and across the world.
Robots have a lot to learn from humans when it comes to memory.
The violence sparked by the removal of Confederate statues in the US shows the ideas that collect around historical monuments. Sometimes it’s better to remove them; yet they can be an important way of remembering trauma.
The Australian government had and has the power to do things necessary to establish and maintain its immigration detention facility on Manus Island, despite detention violating PNG law.
Australian health-care organisations are urging action on treatments of people who don’t need them.
Today the phrase ‘all roads leads to Rome’ means that there’s more than one way to reach the same goal. But in Ancient Rome, all roads really did lead to the eternal city, which was at the centre of a vast road network.
Making self-interest seem normal and a commitment to fairness an elite aberration has been a long-term project.
The primacy given to the car has shaped our cities, the roads that serve them and our very thinking about the place of driving in our lives. And it’s a mindset that leaves cyclists highly vulnerable.
Your ideas are not immune to criticism just because you express them with sincerity: people are worthy of respect, ideas are not.
The artificial vision provided by a bionic eye is not like natural sight, and takes a lot of getting used to.
Australia is the 16th-largest emitter of mercury in the world. A huge amount comes from coal power stations – and a new report argues our pollution guidelines are hopelessly lax.
When artists and scientists get together, they fuel each other’s creativity and inquiry.
Many people complain their aches and pains get worse in the cold, but there are a number of ways to reduce that discomfort in the winter months.
The Buy Queensland strategy has questionable economic logic and also explicitly contravenes a number of Australia’s international trade obligations.