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The lengthy childhood of endangered orangutans is written in their teeth

  • Written by: Tanya M. Smith, Associate Professor in the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University
imageA young Bornean orangutan nursing.Erin Vogel, Author provided

Orangutan populations in the wild are criticallyendangered, and one of the things that may hamper their survival is the time they take to rear new offspring.

An orangutan mother will not give birth again until she’s finished providing milk to her previous offspring. Nursing can take...

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New Zealand's Alpine Fault reveals extreme underground heat and fluid pressure

  • Written by: Rupert Sutherland, Professor of tectonics and geophysics, Victoria University of Wellington
imageThe drilling project at New Zealand's Alpine Fault is the first to investigate a major fault that is due to rupture in a big earthquake in coming decades.John Townend/Victoria University of Wellington, CC BY-SA

An international team that drilled almost a kilometre deep into New Zealand’s Alpine Fault, which is expected to rupture in a major...

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Writing the WA wheatbelt, a place of radical environmental change

  • Written by: Tony Hughes-D'Aeth, Associate Professor, English and Cultural Studies, University of Western Australia
imageA message ploughed in the land calls on the federal government to help drought-affected farmers near the wheatbelt town of Kondinin in 2001.Liza Kappelle/AAP

What can creative literature tell us about radical environmental change? Most people accept that literature can be closely connected to places. Whether it is Dickens’s London or...

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Beyond Brexit: ‘Global Britain’ looks to the emerging Anglosphere for new opportunities

  • Written by: Andrew Mycock, Reader in Politics, University of Huddersfield

What lies beyond Brexit? This is not just a question for the United Kingdom and the European Union, but also one that will reverberate around the world.

One answer is “the Anglosphere”.

Often spoken of as an alternative to the UK’s membership of the EU, the Anglosphere is the other side of the Brexit coin. But what is this novel...

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  1. Science or Snake oil: do Band-Aids really 'heal cuts twice as fast'?
  2. Guilt-free online shopping: can parcel deliveries ever be truly carbon-neutral?
  3. Expert culture has killed the innovator in workplaces
  4. Ratings agency S P keeps Australia's AAA rating but doubtful about government's surplus timetable
  5. Physicists use Einstein's 'spooky' entanglement to invent super-sensitive gravitational wave detector
  6. This South Pacific island of rubbish shows why we need to quit our plastic habit
  7. White House under siege as scandal follows scandal – and it won't end any time soon
  8. The ABC's Ask the Doctor sends mixed messages about obesity
  9. Guy Ritchie's King Arthur – a triumph of modern spectacle
  10. Scrounging for money: how the world's great writers made a living
  11. Research shows the banks will pass the bank levy on to customers
  12. Biophilic urbanism: how rooftop gardening soothes souls
  13. The Belt and Road Initiative: China's vision for globalisation, Beijing-style
  14. Violence against nurses is on the rise, but protections remain weak
  15. Curious Kids: why are some shells smooth and some shells corrugated?
  16. Sidelining God: why secular climate projects in the Pacific Islands are failing
  17. Shadow Brokers promise release of more NSA hacks to be used against the world
  18. Coalition fails to get post-budget boost predicted by commentariat
  19. Nick Greiner favourite to become Liberal federal president
  20. How do we decide which disease to prevent next? Long-term studies help
  21. What the underground market for ransomware looks like
  22. Can support for the jailed former Jakarta governor bring change in Indonesia's blasphemy law?
  23. Australia risks missing out on China's One Belt One Road
  24. How resilience can break the link between a 'bad' childhood and the youth justice system
  25. Banning early evening gaming ads on TV is like being 'a little bit pregnant'
  26. Why rent bidding apps will make the rental market even more unaffordable
  27. The Sydney Barrier Reef: engineering a natural defence against future storms
  28. Is Melbourne the music capital of Australia? Sydney or Adelaide might pip it to the post
  29. How to rein in the widening disease definitions that label more healthy people as sick
  30. The other Eurovision star hunt: Australia joins with Europe to explore the universe
  31. Australia should stop beefing up its steroid laws – that won't help users
  32. Why 2℃ of global warming is much worse for Australia than 1.5℃
  33. The budget is the government's Plan B, but what's Plan C if polls stay bad?
  34. WannaCry hackers had no intention of giving users their files back even if they pay
  35. Wondering if health fund premium rises are justified? Don't look to Bupa's accounts for answers
  36. Shifting the tax burden to middle-income earners will undermine jobs and growth
  37. After 'WannaCrypt', should governments stockpile software vulnerabilities? Experts respond
  38. What types of people will lead our great energy transition?
  39. 'Show me the sole': the exhilarating sight of sneakers on show
  40. Helping drug users get back to work, not random drug testing, should be our priority
  41. The off-topic Conversation #123
  42. Why do some graziers want to retain, not kill, dingoes?
  43. Navigating the post-truth debate: some key co-ordinates
  44. Los Angeles Overnight – one of the best films you will (probably) never see
  45. Coalition two-party vote slips in post-budget Newspoll
  46. From 'white flight' to 'bright flight' – the looming risk for our growing cities
  47. The gender pay gap is hurting productivity
  48. Why bad moods are good for you: the surprising benefits of sadness
  49. Terahertz spectroscopy: the new tool to help detect art fraud
  50. Fairytale no more: when love turns to hatefully ever after

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