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Video essayists on YouTube are trying to beat the manosphere at it’s own game. Here are five insightful channels to watch.
A new review on exoskeleton therapy for cerebral palsy reports some promising findings.
The best map yet of cosmic magnetic fields has been created with Australia’s most powerful radio telescope.
Costs from severe storms are increasing – and this global shift in hailstorm spells bad news for crops, too.
A smallpox epidemic in the 1830s brought a new and deadly disease to the southeastern frontier. Aboriginal people responded with three distinct techniques.
Seeing a signal in different kinds of light is like having a text written in several forms of writing – it makes it easier to decipher.
Therapies aimed at reframing negative thoughts may not work for some people with PTSD. New research shows it may be because their brains work differently after trauma.
Photographs have provided the first-ever evidence of a brooding red pipefish, resolving a 40-year mystery.
Is meat healthy or not? The answer can depend on who funded the research, according to a new study.
Cells called macrophages can devour living cancer cells – and may hold the key for successful treatment.
For women in war zones, heritage sites can go beyond worship and history. They are places of gendered socialising.
Key features of the famous monument defend it from earthquakes – but we can’t know if that’s what the builders had in mind.
Three videos, three very different messages about masculinity and health. New research shows this is how the manosphere finds young men.
More ‘natural’ collaboration between scientists and computers won’t necessarily be more effective.
A host of unique crocodylian species ruled the roost in Australia and surrounds for millions of years – until humans came along.
Long-term data shows children are more likely to develop mental health issues when their parents experience financial stress and housing instability.
Age-related macular degeneration is a common cause of blindness, but adding some static noise to a patient’s vision can counteract some of the disease’s effects.
With most teens unlikely to tune into nightly TV news or to read newspapers, a new study shows the social media ban is all but cutting them off from the news.
We can study the cosmos by tracing debris from exploding stars right here on Earth.
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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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Senior Lecturer, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University
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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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Sean Ulm is a Friend of The Conversation.
Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, James Cook University
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Professor, School of Mathematical And Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor of Visual Communication & Digital Media, RMIT University
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Research Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University
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University Fellow in Biodiversity, Charles Darwin University
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Research Associate in Behavioural Science at the Institute for Climate Risk & Response, UNSW