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Nicolás Maduro was elected President in 2013 after the death of Hugo Chavez.
Nicolás Maduro was elected President in 2013 after the death of Hugo Chavez
Venezuela’s major crises will continue in 2017. These include ongoing economic instability, over-reliance on the price of oil, shortages of food and electricity and increasing inequality. At the core is…
Many Brazilian politicians were involved in corruption scandals, leading to mass protests.
AAP/Cris Faga
Brazil is the ninth largest economy in the world, yet its real potential has never been realised. Having had a strong period of economic growth from 2003 to shortly after the global financial crisis, the…
Each of PewDiePie’s videos attracts as many viewers as an edition of The Wall Street Journal.
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Think you couldn’t possibly do without your car? There are more options than you might think.
Galaxy cluster MACS 0416 bends light around it due to huge amounts of dark matter, indicated in cyan, acting as a magnifying lens for any background objects in the magenta regions.
STScI/NASA/CATS Team/R. Livermore (UT Austin)
Ingenious use of a naturally occurring cosmic magnifying glass suggests baby galaxies are a leading culprit for bringing light to our Universe’s darkest moment.
On a hot day, does taking a cold shower make you cooler?
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Some people swear by cold showers to cope with a long, hot summer. Here’s why they’d be better off taking a warm one.
An artist’s impression of a Sun-like star close to a rapidly spinning supermassive black hole, with a mass of about 100 million times the mass of our Sun.
ESA/Hubble, ESO, M. Kornmesser
Ratings across a number of sports are in decline. But this doesn’t spell the end of live sport, rather it shows why we should strive to keep it on free TV.
Executive orders have the power to be socially transformative in US politics.
Reuters/Jonathan Ernst
Although congressional Democrats have been vocal in opposing most of Donald Trump’s executive orders, they appear to have little support from Republicans to enact the legislation needed change them.
Opinions differ on the precise moment at which the human embryo attains moral status.
EPA/SEOUL UNIVERSITY/AAP
Stem-cell scientists have to work within many limitations placed on their research. One of these is the 14-day rule that outlaws research on pure human embryos over two weeks old.
Cafes might have hosted work for centuries but are they the best place for gig workers to do their thing?
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Yossi Rathner, Swinburne University of Technology and Mark Schier, Swinburne University of Technology
It’s a long, hot summer’s day and you’re looking forward to an ice cream. But within seconds of your first bite, you feel a headache coming on: a brain freeze. What’s going on?
The discovery of the year was the first detection of gravitational waves.
LIGO/T. Pyle
A handful of our business economics writers share the favourite books they read this year.
The annular solar eclipse of 4th January 2011 as seen by the Hinode satellite. The Moon is slightly more distant from Earth than in a total eclipse allowing a ring of sunlight to appear around the dark shadow of the Moon.
NASA/Hinode/XRT
Meteor showers, eclipses, epic space missions and more, 2017 will be worth looking up for.
The increasing proportion of children living in housing-related poverty confronts us with the question: what will we do about it?
Ollyy/shutterstock.com
Many children are living in low-income families that struggle to pay the rent to keep a roof over their heads. Unaffordable housing is fuelling childhood poverty, so where is the policy response?
Politicians talking budget deficits have a difficult message to sell.
Lukas Coch/AAP
Professor of Media and Communication and Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making + Society, Swinburne University of Technology