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As far as we know, only one person has ever been directly struck by space debris. That was back in 1997.
By keeping the BasicsCard, the federal government seems not to have taken on board the lessons from the soon to be scrapped cashless debit card
If global health care was a country, it would be the world’s fifth largest emitter. There are simple ways health care can reduce its emissions, starting with scans and gases.
The first thing Australian medical research needs is more money. The second thing is making funding allocation less of a lottery.
Problems identifying and responding to emotions in others is thought of as a core feature of autism. But our research shows there may be minimal differences in this aspect of social interaction.
The findings underscore the urgency of limiting global warming to below 1.5°C, to avert the most catastrophic climate harms.
Despite some wins, the NSW premier faces multiplying challenges eight months from the next election
As enrolments climb and urban spaces become more crowded, some schools have been left with less play space per student than a prison cell.
Selby Wynn Schwartz’s inventive, poetic reimagining of lives like those of Virginia Woolf and Sarah Bernhardt – against a backdrop of Sappho – has just been longlisted for the Booker Prize.
Word from The Hill: Peter Dutton puts nuclear power on opposition’s agenda
Michelle Grattan discusses politics with politics + society editor, Amanda Dunn
A recent review of studies concluded depression is not caused by a lack of serotonin in the brain. But this doesn’t mean antidepressants, which work on serotonin, aren’t effective.
Caves form over millions of years, as a result of flowing water slowly working away at ‘soft’ calcareous rock.
There’s been a lot of talk about pulling the gas trigger. The problem is, the trigger is too slow and too easy to avoid.
Never, in the three decades the Reserve Bank has been targeting inflation, has it been tested by prices rising in unison like this.
No, it’s not like donating a kidney. But it is still a gift.
Under the Greens’ proposal, future projects, such as a new mine or high emissions industrial plant, would be assessed on the climate harms they’d potentially cause.
Renaissance is Beyoncé’s first solo album in more than five years, and her first fully dance album.
Most cases in the current global outbreak are occurring among men who have sex with men. So how can this group and others who are at risk protect themselves?
To develop a hydrogen economy at the scale of Aotearoa’s climate ambitions would require about a quarter of the country’s current energy use and swallow enormous amounts of water.
Both Russia and Ukraine are signatories to the Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners of war – how much it is being observed is another matter.
Misconceptions around Acknowledgement of Country and Welcome to Country persist. Many people do not understand what they are, how they are different or why they are practised.
Homeless voters represent a diverse electoral group; can their numbers turn the tide in elections?
Not all Alzheimer’s research has been compromised by allegations of scientific fraud. But we should interrogate whether the governing bodies of research and drug approvals are truly effective.
The single sex versus co-ed debate has been going for decades. But perhaps changing social norms will put an end to it.