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When a bushfire rages so high it creates its own thunderstorm, it becomes a ‘firestorm’ - and makes life much more difficult for firefighters. We still have a lot to learn about what triggers them.
Melbourne ranks as the World’s Most Liveable City. But does that tell us what people really love? Lovability is a new approach to city metrics.
In pregnancy, immune cells help the uterus tolerate and nurture the embryo despite it carrying foreign genes from the father. In most women, suppressing immunity will likely cause more harm than good.
During the election campaign the University of Canberra’s focus group in the seat of Indi was asked who’d be the better prime minister to deal with a possible Trump presidency.
This week the Race to the White House team digest the news that Donald Trump will be the 45th President of the United States of America. How did the pollsters get it so wrong, and what will a Trump presidency actually look like?
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced plans to ratify the Paris climate agreement, a day after US participation in the treaty was thrown into dought by Donald Trump’s election victory.
Western Australia’s super-corals are adapted to high temperatures, but even they didn’t escape the recent bleaching event unscathed.
The prospect of a Trump presidency does not bode well for women in general and feminism in particular.
Incentive schemes are widespread in the corporate world. But they may be doing more harm than good.
Postage-stamp sized patches that target vaccines to the immune system are now in clinical trials.
Many of the US’s current and mooted free trade negotiations are now dead in the water, but that doesn’t mean it’s game over for free trade.
The internet and social media are changing how we commemorate war. The hashtag #LestWeForget will be shared millions of times on Remembrance Day in tweets and Facebook comments.
The media as an institution in the United States is in a deplorable condition, and President-elect Donald Trump has been the beneficiary of its failings.
Donald Trump victory in the US presidential election will frustrate China, leading the country to try and assert its economic and political leadership. This means Australia may have to choose.
Heatwaves are Australia’s deadliest type of natural disaster. But while we know a lot about the weather patterns behind them, more research is needed to forecast accurately their impacts on people.
Many models used by policy-makers suggest we’ll have to remove CO2 from the atmosphere - but if we can’t, we have to get much more serious about cutting emissions.
Genome editing and synthetic biology are giving rise to new forms of life. But do these organisms have conservation value as part of earth’s biodiversity?
Junior doctors are often blamed when things go wrong in hospital. But are we placing too many demands on them?
Attributing a Shakespeare work to another writer attracts plenty of critics. But an attribution specialist says his team’s decision to name Christopher Marlowe as a co-author is based on state of the art research.
Many pollsters are now eating humble pie.
Trump has won the White House by offering a vision of a bygone era, in favour of a more cosmopolitan, sophisticated future.
Some might say that financial markets over-reacted to the Brexit vote and the market reaction to the US election is the same. But Brexit won’t happen till 2019, a Trump victory has already happened.
Global markets are spooked - and with good reason.
An enormous rally in Jakarta, organised by hardline Islamic militia group the Islamic Defenders Front, appears to have mobilised a diverse group of conservative Muslims in Indonesia.