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Room sharing is the new flat sharing

  • Written by: Christian Tietz, Senior Lecturer in Industrial Design, UNSW
image"Looking for one girl to share a master room with another 3 girls."Screenshot from Gumtree ad, August 19 2017, 11:58 , Author provided

High rents and short-term rentals are driving people to organise themselves to share rooms with strangers in order to live in the city. Room sharing outside a family environment is also occurring in some...

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Error correcting the things that go wrong at the quantum computing scale

  • Written by: Thomas Stace, Associate Professor in Physics, The University of Queensland
imageDetecting the errors in data is one thing, but correction them is still possible at the quantum computing level.Shutterstock/andriano cz

Computing power has grown exponentially over many decades, so why is the much-promised next leap of quantum computers taking so long to arrive?

One reason is that the information in a quantum system is sensitive...

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Dissociative identity disorder exists and is the result of childhood trauma

  • Written by: Michael Salter, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Western Sydney University
imageDissociative identity disorder is a serious and valid mental illness.Irudayam/Flickr, CC BY

Once known as multiple personality disorder, dissociative identity disorder remains one of the most intriguing but poorly understood mental illnesses. Research and clinical experience indicate people diagnosed with the condition have been victims of...

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How refugees overcome the odds to become entrepreneurs

  • Written by: Jock Collins, Professor of Social Economics, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
imageThe research group included Hazara who opened kebab shops in Adelaide.Shutterstock

ARefugees face monumental challenges when starting a business. Many lack formal education, capital, social capital (relationships in the community), English language skills, and knowledge of the local market and regulations.

Our research into a community of Hazara...

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  2. Is faster profit growth essential for a pick-up in wages growth?
  3. Children can decide their medical treatments under Victoria’s unique advance directive laws
  4. Australia's $1 billion loan to Adani is ripe for a High Court challenge
  5. Why are we still pursuing the Adani Carmichael mine?
  6. First act of the family law review should be using research we already have
  7. Australian household electricity prices may be 25% higher than official reports
  8. For whom the bell tolls: cats kill more than a million Australian birds every day
  9. Beyond sanctions: a diplomatic path to peace on the Korean Peninsula
  10. Driverless vehicles could bring out the best – or worst – in our cities by transforming land use
  11. Curious Kids: How do satellites get back to Earth?
  12. From beards to best friends, it's time to give 'fag hags' their badge of honour
  13. Should you be 'nudged' into better health without you even knowing?
  14. Why Australia doesn't need to match the Trump tax cuts
  15. An award with real gravity: how gravitational waves attracted a Nobel Prize
  16. Qld ReachTEL: One Nation prefs help LNP to 52-48 lead; 57.5% nationally have returned SSM form
  17. Turnbull proposes tougher security measures
  18. Nearly six-in-ten people already voted in marriage ballot: ABS
  19. Magpies can form friendships with people – here's how
  20. People diagnosed with the same mental illness can be quite different, and research must address this
  21. The philosopher who was too hot for Playboy
  22. Price still up in the air as gas producers sign supply deal
  23. Circadian rhythm Nobel: what they discovered and why it matters
  24. Straight from the athlete's mouth: Australia's sports media landscape could be set for a shake-up
  25. Catalans and Kurds have a long battle ahead for true independence
  26. As Spain represses Catalonia's show of independence, the rest of Europe watches on nervously
  27. Stuck in traffic: we need a smarter approach to congestion than building more roads
  28. Sharing the parenting duties could be key to marital bliss: study
  29. Whose best friend? How gender and stereotypes can shape our relationship with dogs
  30. Plenty of fish in the sea? Not necessarily, as history shows
  31. How we can overcome the lack of treatment options for rare cancers
  32. How to work out which coral reefs will bleach, and which might be spared
  33. How can we prevent financial abuse of the elderly?
  34. The Great Australian Plays: Williamson, Hibberd and the better angels of our country's nature
  35. Mercury from the northern hemisphere is ending up in Australia
  36. After Charlottesville, how we define tolerance becomes a key question
  37. Drug resistance: how we keep track of whether antibiotics are being used responsibly
  38. Decoration or distraction: the aesthetics of classrooms matter, but learning matters more
  39. Shinzo Abe gambles on sending Japan to a snap election – but it may yet backfire
  40. If Australia says 'yes', churches are still free to say 'no' to marrying same-sex couples
  41. Why we should pay people to stop smoking
  42. From feral camels to 'cocaine hippos', large animals are rewilding the world
  43. I've always wondered: Why don't hippos get cholera?
  44. What happened to our promised leisure time? And will we find it in the smart city?
  45. Guide to the Classics: Dante’s Divine Comedy
  46. Three charts on: the great Australian wealth gap
  47. Sassy, zany and easy-going: the abundance of fun in digital help
  48. FactCheck: will Safe Schools be 'mandatory' if same-sex marriage is legalised?
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