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Magpies have long memories, and human behaviour towards them largely determines how they respond
One person with a given diagnosis can be entirely different, symptomatically speaking, from another with the same diagnosis.
Around 1970 Playboy magazine received an unexpected proposition from the radical German philosopher Herbert Marcuse - he would do an interview, if he could pose for the magazine’s centrefold.
The winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine discovered how our internal body clock works.
The new wave of athlete-to-fan digital products will be faced with a few challenges if they are to be successful.
Instead of focusing on freeways, governments should change the way we pay for urban roads and public transport.
Inequality across the domestic sphere – housework and parenting – jeopardises relationship quality.
There can be a difference in the way some dogs react to men and women, and it can also matter if the dog is a he or a she.
The history of fisheries exploitation in Australia reveals a staggering natural bounty, which has been alarmingly fragile without proper management.
Rare cancers are hard to research given the few patients that have each type of cancer, so how can we improve treatment for these patients?
Regional variations in sea temperature can make all the difference between a coral reef suffering major bleaching or surviving as a refuge for corals, new research shows.
The federal governments efforts to tackle the financial abuse of elders is to be welcomed - but will banks be properly empowered to act?
David Williamson and Jack Hibberd tower over Australian drama. Williamson’s The Department and Hibberd’s A Stretch of the Imagination both showcase the strange yet compelling detachment of these playwrights’ visions.
For the first time research has shown that mercury released in the northern hemisphere ends up in Australia’s tropics.
Our society is now intolerant of those who are intolerant of others; they can be legally penalised. But is that in itself a failure of tolerance?
We know overuse and inappropriate use of antibiotics contribute to resistance, so it’s important we develop strategies to improve practice.
Studies have found paying people to quit is more effective than other methods, so why are we not considering it in Australia?
Much of the Earth’s megafauna are now found outside their native ranges. Thanks to introduced populations, megafauna richness on each continent is higher today than during the past ~10,000 years.
Why are some animals resistant to waterborne disease? A reader wants to know.
A common theme from science fiction is a vision of a world where humans do less work and machines do more. Why have we not yet reached that point?
The gates to hell in Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy tell us to “abandon all hope, yet who enter here”. Despite its unfunny premise, ‘La Commedia’ ends well, with its protagonist Dante reaching heaven.
Australia is becoming wealthier, but much of that wealth remains concentrated in the hands of older generations.
Siri is sassy. But when does the tone of voice in digital help override usefulness?
‘Vote No’ campaign material distributed by the Australian Conservatives claims that if same-sex marriage is legalised, the Safe Schools program will be ‘mandatory in schools’. We looked at the facts.