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Evidence of ancient life in hot springs on Earth could point to fossil life on Mars

  • Written by Tara Djokic, PhD Candidate - Earths earliest evidence of life, UNSW
imageRidges in the Dresser Formation in the Pilbara Craton of Western Australia that preserve ancient stromatolites and hot spring deposits.Kathleen Campbell, Author provided

Fossil evidence of early life has been found in old hot spring deposits in the Pilbara, Western Australia, that date back almost 3.48 billion years.

This extends the known evidence...

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Have the arts come out of the cold or is it another sleight of hand?

  • Written by Jo Caust, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), University of Melbourne

The Australian arts sector has had to withstand direct cuts and reductions since the Coalition parties came into government in 2013. In particular, the budget of 2014 saw a re-direction of Australia Council funding of $103.8 million from the Council to set up then Minister Brandis’s National Program for Excellence in the Arts. However in...

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Curious Kids: What plants could grow in the Goldilocks zone of space?

  • Written by Jonti Horner, Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow, University of Southern Queensland
imageAlmost every star has planets – so there are more planets in our galaxy than there are stars. NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle, CC BY-SA

This is an article from Curious Kids, a new series for children. The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they’d like an expert to answer. All questions are welcome – serious, weird or...

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Decoding the music masterpieces: Brahms's Piano Quartet in G minor

  • Written by Peter Roennfeldt, Professor of Music, Griffith University
imageBrahms' piano quartet in G minor was composed for a piano, a violin, a viola and a cello. kkmarais/Flickr, CC BY

Today’s composers would love to discover the elusive formula for artistic permanence. But it was probably always so. Even German composer Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) did not instantly achieve the honoured status he still holds...

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  1. To get the 'good debt' tick, infrastructure needs to be fit for the future
  2. Prescribing generic drugs will reduce patient confusion and medication errors
  3. Budget 2017: Medicare levy rise finances NDIS and banks hit for budget repair
  4. Budget 2017: government goes hard on gas and hydro in bid for energy security
  5. Budget's 'good debt' conversion underpins $70b-plus infrastructure program: experts respond
  6. Budget 2017 sees Medicare rebate freeze slowly lifted and more funding for the NDIS: experts respond
  7. Federal Budget 2017: what's changing in education?
  8. Budget 2017-18 brings welfare crackdown and increased defence and security funding: experts respond
  9. Treasurer Scott Morrison’s 2017-18 budget speech, annotated by experts
  10. The art of the leak: how the budget is strategically doled out for maximum effect
  11. Budget 2017: Morrison heads off the right with an appeal to altruism over self-interest
  12. Infographic: Budget 2017 at a glance
  13. Morrison's fresh start budget comes with fresh pain
  14. Budget 2017: government still tinkering with housing affordability
  15. Budget 2017: bank populism will be paid for by Australians
  16. Winning ugly: the AOC election and the Olympic spirit
  17. Data availability report presents compromised rights for consumers
  18. Life after redundancy: what happens next for journalists when they leave newsrooms
  19. Why Birmingham's performance funding plan won't improve Australian universities
  20. Has the print book trumped digital? Beware of glib conclusions
  21. What's the difference between traumatic fear and moral anger? Trigger warnings won't tell you
  22. Government spending explained in 10 charts; from Howard to Turnbull
  23. Viewpoints: is saturated fat really the killer it's made out to be?
  24. Changes to school funding - your questions answered
  25. Naming suspects in criminal cases opens up ethical minefield
  26. Tax on 'unearned gains' is the missing piece of the affordable housing puzzle
  27. Whiteley: a seductive cinematic portrait of a serious artist
  28. Global warming could accelerate towards 1.5℃ if the Pacific gets cranky
  29. Pilot study on why academics should engage with others in the community
  30. Latham to fight for 'western civilisation' from the Liberal Democrats' kennel
  31. Julie Bishop keeps Abdel-Magied on Australian-Arab board
  32. Therapy for life-threatening eating disorders works, so why can't people access it?
  33. Politics podcast: Andrew Giles on schools funding
  34. TPG bid for Fairfax: what usually happens when private equity meets media?
  35. Discovering Charles Meere: an intriguing, subversive artist
  36. What are 'fasting' diets and do they help you lose weight?
  37. The Conversation chatbot launches in Facebook Messenger
  38. Government out of touch on housing policies ahead of budget: poll
  39. Macron crushes Le Pen 66-34 in French Presidential runoff
  40. The picture of who is affected by 'revenge porn' is more complex than we first thought
  41. Live odds ban debate exposes sport and gambling's uncomfortable mutual dependency
  42. How the politics of the budget might play out for a government in trouble
  43. Turnbull government aims to distance itself from its predecessor with the 2017-18 budget
  44. The future of flying cars: science fact or science fiction
  45. Ten years after the crisis, what is happening to the world's bees?
  46. Junk food packaging hijacks the same brain processes as drug and alcohol addiction
  47. Guide to the classics: the Epic of Gilgamesh
  48. Off the plan: shelter, the future and the problems in between
  49. Technology, once thought the enabler of democracy, is threatening to kill it off
  50. Catholics vow to go hard in schools fight with government

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