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Early images of the closest look at Jupiter's Great Red Spot

  • Written by: Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer, Postdoctoral Fellow, Astrophysics Researcher, UNSW
imageThe raw images of Jupiter's Great Red Spot taken this week by the Juno probe. NASA/SwRI/MSSS

The images coming in from NASA’s Juno mission reveal some amazing details of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, after the probe made its closest approach yet of the giant planetary storm system.

On Tuesday, Juno flew 9,000km above the most massive storm...

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Explainer: what is pre-pregnancy carrier screening and should potential parents consider it?

  • Written by: Gina Ravenscroft, Research Fellow in neuromuscular disease and genetics, University of Western Australia
imageCouples thinking about kids can be screened for genes that may cause disease in their offspring.Redd Angelo, Unsplash, CC BY-SA

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recently recommended obstetricians, gynaecologists and other related health care providers offer pre-pregnancy carrier screening for genetic diseases to all patients....

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The National Electricity Market has served its purpose – it's time to move on

  • Written by: Alan Pears, Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University
imageA single, national market that supplies all of Australia's electricty is looking dangerously outdated – and politically impossible.Shutterstock

The Finkel Review was a valiant attempt to find a path towards a 21st century energy market model for Australia. But political infighting and powerful interests have blocked one of its core proposals,...

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Blaming migrants won't solve Western Sydney's growing pains

  • Written by: Shanthi Robertson, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
imageMany people in culturally diverse populations in Western Sydney have lived in Australia for many years, if not several generations.Shutterstock

Population growth has profound impacts on Australian life, and sorting myths from facts can be difficult. This article is part of our series, Is Australia Full?, which aims to help inform a wide-ranging and...

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  2. Got pre-diabetes? Here's five things to eat or avoid to prevent type 2 diabetes
  3. Memo to COAG: Australia is already awash with gas
  4. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Turnbull and the 'sensible centre'
  5. Business Briefing: are our standards dropping in the workplace?
  6. Explainer: what are 'creepshots' and what can we do about them?
  7. Four outdated assumptions prevent progress on affordable housing – to everyone's cost
  8. Student employment and inflexible university policies drive online drop out
  9. Publish and don’t perish – how to keep rare species' data away from poachers
  10. Step by step, we're tackling gender equity in Australian astronomy
  11. Friday essay: painting 'The Last Victorian Aborigines'
  12. The unlikely 21st century reboot of an ancient philosophy
  13. Grattan on Friday: Hanson's 'outsider' politics a challenge for Turnbull as he sits in 'sensible centre'
  14. Gilead and the billion-dollar odyssey
  15. Platform co-ops offer urban communities a bigger say in their lives
  16. The Conversation attends Global Fact 4, with fact-checkers from around the world
  17. How a special forces 'band of brothers' culture leads to civilian deaths in war
  18. Are Australia's native pigeons sitting ducks?
  19. The off-topic Conversation #128
  20. How people can best make the transition to cool future cities
  21. How to maintain the balance between boundaries and freedom in secondary school parenting
  22. Why you should eat a plant-based diet, but that doesn't mean being a vegetarian
  23. Refugees are helping others in their situation as social entrepreneurs
  24. Explainer: how Australia's military justice system works
  25. How empathy can make or break a troll
  26. Politics podcast: Graeme Samuel on data governance
  27. Network Ten's future is all about media power, not economics
  28. Can property survive the great climate transition?
  29. How infectious diseases have shaped our culture, habits and language
  30. Why it matters to transform parent involvement from early childhood to primary school
  31. Resume robot wars: how employees could match employers' use of tech in job applications
  32. How many people can Australia feed?
  33. What biological clocks and geological rocks tell us about life in space
  34. Hijabers of Instagram: the Muslim women challenging stereotypes
  35. Politicians jeopardise the safety of whistleblowers with bad technology
  36. The Tabcorp/Tatts case should end the clash between the ACCC and the Competition Tribunal
  37. We're close to banning nuclear weapons – killer robots must be next
  38. The policy termites slowly eating out the foundations of smoking
  39. The electricity sector needs to cut carbon by 45% by 2030 to keep Australia on track
  40. From Boomers to Xennials: we love talking about our generations, but must recognise their limits
  41. Is the world really sleepwalking to war? Systems thinking can provide an answer
  42. Four myths about water fluoridation and why they're wrong
  43. Asia’s dangerous new geopolitics
  44. What ethical business can do to help make ecocities a reality
  45. Modi's polarising populism makes a fiction of a secular, democratic India
  46. What actually is a good city?
  47. Turnbull is right to link the Liberals with the centre – but is the centre where it used to be?
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