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Tony Windsor to shape up against Barnaby Joyce

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor

Former independent MP Tony Windsor, one of the crucial crossbenchers who kept the Gillard government in power, is set to announce he will run in his old seat of New England against Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce.

Windsor, 65, held the seat from 2001 to 2013, when he retired citing health and family reasons. Joyce switched from the Senate,...

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Discovery of carbon on Mercury reveals the planet's dark past

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor
imageThis enhanced colour image shows the traces of carbon on the surface, coloured here in blue.NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

Mercury has been found to have a dark side with graphite, a crystalline form of carbon commonly found in pencils, being the source of the mysterious dark colouration...

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Explainer: what happens to your skin when you get sunburnt?

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor

Most Australians are familiar with the painful red skin, blisters and peeling that follow too much time in the sun. Last summer, 2.4 million Australian adults were getting sunburnt each weekend.

But what’s actually happening in the skin during a sunburn?

DNA damage

Sunburn is a radiation burn, caused when the ultraviolet (UV) rays of sunlight da...

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  1. Speaking with: Lucy Turnbull on the Greater Sydney Commission
  2. Why rigging of the bank bill swap rate hurts everyone
  3. Dr Benjamin Koh – Australian of the Year 2017?
  4. Pushing back against the politicisation of economic modelling
  5. If planners understand it's cool to green cities, what's stopping them?
  6. Hidden housemates: the Australian redback spider
  7. George Brandis was never going to get what he wanted from his 'freedoms' inquiry
  8. Barney Glover: The time has come for a national agreement on the future of higher education
  9. Explainer: the exciting new genre of the audio-visual film essay
  10. Gone is the solitary genius – science today is a group effort
  11. Why counting dead bodies in Syria is fraught with politics and imprecision
  12. Universities Australia calls for certainty in higher education funding
  13. Alan Alda on the art of science communication: 'I want to tell you a story'
  14. Same-sex couples and their children: what does the evidence tell us?
  15. 'Girls Make Your Move' exercise ads look good but are unlikely deliver on their own
  16. A new index for economic uncertainty: nothing to fear but fear itself
  17. Skin deep: should Australia consider name-blind resumes?
  18. Australia's coal mines are pouring methane gas into the atmosphere
  19. Antarctica's blue whales are split into three distinct populations
  20. Explainer: what is differentiation and why is it poorly understood?
  21. The way things are heading, it will be a let down if we aren't voting on July 2
  22. Maria Sharapova's positive drug test: what is it and what does it mean for her?
  23. Negative gearing changes won't drive all investors from the housing market – here's why
  24. We need a fairer system for deciding rain-affected games in Twenty20 cricket
  25. Our electricity network regulation is in trouble
  26. Queer wars: the best place to start promoting gay rights is at home
  27. Parents have the biggest influence over their child's language and emotional development
  28. ASIC v ANZ rate-rigging case will be one of epic proportions
  29. Women in the porn industry need rights and proper pay, not token gestures
  30. Explainer: what happens during a heart attack and how is one diagnosed?
  31. How negative-gearing changes can bring life back to eerily quiet suburbs
  32. CommInsure case shows it's time to target reckless misconduct in banking
  33. Feminism has failed and needs a radical rethink
  34. Sex workers of the world unite! How striking French sex workers inspired a global labour movement
  35. Companies prefer ticking boxes to breaking the glass ceiling
  36. We traced the human fingerprint on record-breaking temperatures back to the 1930s
  37. The evidence is in: greater gender diversity in science benefits us all
  38. Two years on since flight MH370 disappeared and the search has found nothing: what now?
  39. Who really benefits from freedom of speech?
  40. Why is it so hard to recruit good maths and science teachers?
  41. Jupiter returns as king of the night sky
  42. Government-Labor again 50-50 in Newspoll
  43. Morrison will fight same-sex marriage
  44. Abbott and Credlin and the death of a prime ministership
  45. Euthanasia: more options doesn't always expand our freedoms, sometimes it limits them
  46. Euthanasia: let's clarify what the law is before we debate changing it
  47. Health Check: what to do if you burn yourself
  48. Chasing ice: how ice cores shape our understanding of ancient climate
  49. Google expands the ‘right to be forgotten’, but Australia doesn't need it
  50. Done like a chicken dinner: city fringes locked in battles over broiler farms

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