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The proposal could be the radical change the education system needs.
A supporter of The Voice referendum holds up a sign at a rally in Sydney.
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Plus a view on the Voice referendum from Canada. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
The author, Mats Larsson, on the right during the 2023 announcement.
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The discussions in the committee are always open, frank and sometimes emotional, but never hostile.
Chemistry Nobel prize laureates Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov.
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Quantum dot technology has also helped revolutionise medical imagining.
Don’t Look Now opens with a shocking accident, after which the sense of dread never abates.
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A sinister and slow-building sense of dread ensures Nic Roeg’s supernatural horror lingers in the mind long after the credits have rolled.
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Around 90% of people who have been incorrectly told by their doctor that they are allergic to penicillin.
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The emotional response to the loss of the Sycamore Gap is part of a long history of emblematic trees, their destruction and renewal
What are your rights if you want to become a guerrilla gardener?
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Many people are gardening on land that is not theirs – here are some things to consider to avoid getting into trouble.
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A new study modelled how a game of snog, marry, avoid, may play out in the animal kingdom.
Robot vacuum cleaners are already a feature in some homes.
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Robotics and AI look set to transform how we carry out domestic work, including caring for other people.
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When hospital and GP staff do not reflect the population they serve, patients’ health suffers.
Detail from a 15th century manuscript recounting the siege of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258.
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The new game takes liberties with what medieval Baghdad looked like but reveals more about Islamic art and architecture as a result.
Saxon burial mound in Taplow, England.
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Skeletons found with items that don’t align with their estimated sex are usually excluded from research – but that assumes a 19th century view of gender.
Karikó and Weissman first began working together in 1985.
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The prestigious prize was awarded to Dr Katalin Karikó and Dr Drew Weissman from the University of Pennsylvania.
Hemachatus nyangensis in Nyanga National Park, Zimbabwe.
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The Nyanga rinkhals can tell us about our own evolution.
Perspective view of a lobate scarp on Mercury named Carnegie Rupes, colour-coded according to surface altitude. The crater near the middle is nearly 40 km across.
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Mercury has shrunk by7 km. Most of this happened long ago, but now we have evidence that it continues.
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Like icy thermometers, glaciers overlying volcanoes shift according to temperature changes below.
Radical conservative Javier Milei is ahead in polls to become next president.
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The IMF’s US57 billion bailout to Argentina in 2018 was the biggest loan it has ever extended.
The artist’s rendering of a radiolarian, a protozoa that forms part of zooplankton and possesses a skeleton-type structure.
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Artistic representations of scientific imaging can help illuminate complex ideas and help bring this knowledge to a wider audience.
Pam Grier as vigilante nurse Coffy who seeks to punish drug dealers and corrupt officials.
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Coffy saw Pam Grier as the main propulsive force in a Blaxploitation movie, breaking ground for later female roles such as Ripley in Alien, Sarah Connor in Terminator and Nakia in Black Panther.