A CSIRO study has found 39% less plastic pollution in and around Australian coastal cities over ten years. It also found more places with no rubbish at all.
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Stars are constantly vibrating because of ‘starquakes’. Listening to their sound can reveal a surprising amount of information.
A new review has found a lack of convincing evidence stem cell injections are helpful for knee osteoarthritis. But there are ways to manage this painful condition.
This is unacceptably high and we need targeted solutions.
To date, projections of how climate change will affect global GDP have been massively underestimated.
Arts and culture are neither luxuries nor commodities, but integral parts of a thriving society. Balancing profitability with artistic integrity demands new ways of thinking.
Australia is spending more on defence – but without money going to AI, cybersecurity and space technology our military risks being stuck in the past.
A new review shows bed rest is unlikely to help your back pain. The treatments that work can depend on how long your pain has lasted.
A new modelling study has sought to find out what impact recent foreign aid cuts – particularly from the US – will have on HIV. Here’s what the researchers found.
Robotic tools are too big for ‘keyhole’ brain surgery – but a new miniature technology using magnets could change all that.
Men wait an average of 21 years before telling anyone they were sexually abused. A new study looks at why men often don’t disclose sexual abuse and assaults.
Plants shape Earth’s atmosphere by moving carbon and water vapour. New research sheds light on how they learned to do it – and how it may change in future climates.
A project to map galaxies across the universe may have spied cracks in the foundation of our understanding of the cosmos.
The youngest child in the study was a 4-year-old, who said she liked being given a teddy bear at the hospital.
The SKA-Low radio telescope in Western Australia is slowly coming online. It will probe the shape of the universe and study cosmic mysteries.
Research reveals most of the sites the Coalition has earmarked for nuclear power plants would be suitable for pumped hydropower plants.
Is our lifespan primarily dictated by our genetics, or do our behaviour and environment play the more important role?
Chinese is one of the world’s oldest languages and spoken by over one billion people. Its pronoun system may be on the cusp of significant change.
A bird might look and act outwardly healthy – but on the inside, ingested plastics are slowly wreaking havoc.
The mental health of trans, nonbinary and gender-diverse Australians is suffering and getting worse.
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Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Professor of Transport, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Health Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Geochronology, Curtin University
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Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Node Leader in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, Flinders University
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Visiting Fellow, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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