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Cells and processes in our body have existed for longer and longer periods of time.
New research has found the youngest children in West Australian primary school classes are twice as likely as their oldest classmates to receive medication for ADHD.
Far from ‘making America great again’, Donald Trump’s sloganeering will deepen mistrust of US motives and irreparably damage any prospect of co-existence, let alone a more co-operative world order.
Gig workers need to be aware of their contract terms and band together in order to maintain their working rights and pay.
From fisheries to forestry, there’s a pattern to collapsing ecosystems and industries. If we can predict them, maybe we can avoid the damage.
From the Blade Runner reboot to Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot to a film about the reincarnated spirit of a dog … here is our list of the movies to look forward to - or not.
The prospect of foreign hackers interfering with democracy is not just an American story. It could happen in Australia too, and we need to guard against it.
The new president’s inaugural speech emphasised protectionism, co-operation and, most emphatically, putting America first.
Australian supermarkets businesses have relied on management talent from the UK but perhaps it’s time to look elsewhere.
Since the 1990s productivity has been slowing in Australia and elsewhere. We aren’t really sure why this is, but here are a couple of theories that could explain it.
Talks among ASEAN leaders are often limited to political and economic issues, pushing problems with deep social and cultural roots like the persecution of ethnic Rohingya to the margins.
A leading website that monitored predatory open access journals has closed. This will make it harder to keep tabs on this corrosive force within science.
The social cost of carbon – which calculates the impact of carbon emissions – plays a key role in US climate policy.
Humans have three basic needs that drive motivation - without them our performance is likely to suffer.
Charities in Australia can be political. They can advocate and lobby to further their charitable purposes. But they can’t be party-political.
On the eve of the inauguration of Donald Trump as the next US president, we take a look back at the Australian reaction on Twitter to his election.
Bashar al-Assad, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan have a long history as leaders of their countries and players in the Syrian war.
The idea of clean coal has been around for 40 years, but remains a pipe dream.
Roman decadence reached its peak with the vomitorium: a room where feasting elites threw up to make room for more food. Or so the story goes …
Banked breast milk is a safe source of shared human milk, and can be a life-saver for very premature babies.
As Australia’s fastest growing economic sector, tourism is long overdue for a level of government investment which matches its contribution to economic growth and employment.
Brexit and Trump pave the way for more financial market uncertainty.
The Federal Court has narrowed the definition of what can be deemed “personal information” in any data stored about you.
Sport remains the most evocative public demonstration of difference between the sexes, so its importance to feminist politics cannot be neglected.