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When visitors come to the Turner from the Tate exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia, the experience is to travel through time and space to early 19th century Britain. It was a time of social…
Why would an otherwise healthy animal stop reproducing? Natural selection usually favours genes that elevate reproductive success because the very act of reproduction is how genes proliferate. So adaptations…
A study led by UNSW found wearing a bicycle helmet certified to Australia’s national standard greatly reduces injury to the…
MATHS AND SCIENCE EDUCATION: We’ve asked our authors about the state of maths and science education in Australia and its future direction. Over the next 10 days, we’ll be running a selection of their responses…
Australia boasts over 500 national parks covering 28 million hectares of land, or about 3.6% of Australia. You could be forgiven for thinking we’re doing well in the biodiversity-conservation game. But…
An international trial testing a preventive drug treatment for HIV nearly halved the rates of HIV transmission among injecting drug users. Injecting drug use causes one in ten new HIV infections worldwide…
The fossilised teeth of kangaroos and other extinct marsupials reveal southeastern Queensland three million years ago was a mosaic of tropical forests, wetlands and grasslands, and much less arid than…
If you spend any time, as I do, in that strange and confusing place we call “The Internet” or that only marginally less strange and confusing place called the USA, you might have noticed an unholy row…
Australian researchers have developed a test to identify unsafe stem cells. Stem cells may one day be used to help regrow damaged body parts, and the new test potentially reduces the risk of unwanted tumours…
A parliamentary inquiry examining Australia’s relationship with East Timor is underway and the proceedings so far do not make for comfortable reading. It’s a good time for an inquiry: East Timor successfully…
Is racism a matter of perspective gone wrong? And, if so, how can we fix it? A new study in Consciousness and Cognition demonstrates technology may be able to offer part of the solution: donning the skin…
When Destination NSW censored an outdoor photography exhibition meant to appear as part of the Vivid Sydney festival, they offended more than just the photographers who risk life and limb to take these…
Palaeontologists from the University of New South Wales have discovered an extinct species of koala that lived in northern…
The word epigenetics means things imposed “on top of genetics”. But what sort of things? Imagine a white mouse breeds with a black mouse – say you get three white babies and three black babies. That’s…
Becoming a parent isn’t easy. Okay, conceiving can be far too easy. But I mean all that stuff about nappies and midnight feeds, and the germs they bring back from daycare, and trying to understand school…
A great level of cynicism has been pervading the ongoing conflict in Syria. This is seen in the manipulation of the crisis by Syria’s neighbours, including Saudi Arabia and Turkey, and the superpowers…
Opposition leader Tony Abbott’s budget reply pledge to discontinue the Low Income Earners Superannuation Contribution (LISC) will hit the retirement savings of thousands of low-paid Australian workers…
It’s make or break time for Australia’s national parks. National parks on land and in the ocean are dying a death of a thousand cuts, in the form of bullets, hooks, hotels, logging concessions and grazing…
Today, we take it for granted that police interviews with suspects will be electronically recorded and independently transcribed. That hasn’t always been the case. Police were once allowed to testify…
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Professor and Program Lead in Adolescent Mental Health at the Black Dog Institute; Clinical Psychologist, UNSW
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Associate Professor of Chemistry, UNSW
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Lecturer, Journalism and Communication, UNSW
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Postdoctoral research associate, UNSW Canberra School of Business, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer, School of Business, UNSW
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Professor and Inaugural Judith Neilson Chair in Architecture, UNSW
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Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations, UNSW
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Research Fellow, National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University; UNSW ; Burnet Institute
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Evolutionary Biologist, ARC Future Fellow, UNSW
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Associate professor, UNSW International Centre for Future Health Systems, UNSW
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Visiting Fellow, Evolution and Ecology Research Centre, UNSW
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Adolescent Mental Health at the Black Dog Institute, UNSW
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Associate Professor, School of Business, UNSW
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Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW
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Lecturer, UNSW Canberra School of Business, UNSW