We sometimes see memory as a video camera, recording our lives accurately and without bias – but this is a myth. Instead, our childhood memories are intricately shaped by our family and culture.
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Unlike the Greek heroes, many Mesopotamian mythical figures have slipped into obscurity. An exception to this is their representation in comics, such as Gilgamesh, who served alongside Captain America as an Avenger.
A body in an Italian museum reveals that Egyptians living 1,500 or more years before the Pharaohs already knew how to preserve bodies.
Researchers found that larger banks are more likely than their smaller peers to experience "operational losses", which includes a failure to meet obligations to clients.
In the 1970s, a young urban planning professor, Dolores Hayden, believed that city design was the key to unlocking patriarchal structures that trapped women in the home. How much has the city changed?
Parents, carers and doctors need to be aware of button batteries in toys and household devices and ensure they can't be ingested.
Australian companies have been employing many and varied takeover defences this year, including some that defy convention.
The republic of letters was an intellectual community that took shape in the Enlightenment. And just like writers' festivals, it had rules about who could speak.
Two companies with very different histories and cultures will now be forced to work together in search of efficiencies and revenue in a brutal media landscape.
If humans are to live on Mars they will need a stable supply of food. Earth plants are not suited to the Mars climate but we can engineer plants that are.
When magma rises towards the surface gas bubbles start to form. Whether or not they can escape as the magma is rising affects how explosive the eruption will be.
Australia needs to accelerate its transition to clean energy, and not prolong the use of high-polluting, coal-fired infrastructure. Otherwise it risks missing out on an economic windfall.
A monstrous worm that features in English mythology shares remarkable similarities with the watery serpents of Indigenous stories.
Anak berbohong bukanlah sesuatu yang mengkhawatirkan. Hal tersebut berarti anak Anda berkembang secara normal.
Australia has seen an unprecedented number of widespread, catastrophic transformations in response to extreme weather events.
Children lying is rarely cause for concern and actually means your child is developmentally normal.
Learning languages early makes multilingualism “normal” in classrooms and playgrounds, and builds curiosity and even modest mastery.
We can safely say goodbye to most single-use plastics. But they do have essential uses in some areas, such as for medical or scientific samples, or storing food for humanitarian aid.
Four out of five experts say we shouldn't ban mobile phones in classrooms.
An online medical appointment booking organisation was sharing personal information about the users of their platform with a plaintiff law firm.
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CSIRO Synthetic Biology Future Science Fellow, Macquarie University
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Professor of Media, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor - Financial Risk Management, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor in Volcanology and Geochemistry, Macquarie University
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Research Fellow in Ancient History, Macquarie University
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Lecturer in Sociology, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer – Modern History, Macquarie University
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Lecturer, Languages and Literature of Ancient Israel, Macquarie University
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Professor of Environmental Finance; Director of the Centre for Corporate Sustainability and Environmental Finance, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer in Educational Psychology, Macquarie University
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Lecturer in Early Childhood, Macquarie University
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PhD research candidate, Business, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow in Screen Media, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor Health Systems Sustainability, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University
