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Unearthing a traditional Irish village that lingered in a South Australian field

  • Written by: Susan Arthure, PhD Candidate, Archaeology, Flinders University, Flinders University
Unearthing a traditional Irish village that lingered in a South Australian fieldSusan Arthure, Author provided

Archaeological research has uncovered the remains of a 19th-century Irish community beneath an otherwise ordinary paddock in rural South Australia. Fitting the clustered form of settlement known as a “clachan”, it’s the first to be identified in Australia. Even more remarkably, this community...

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Worried about your child getting coronavirus? Here's what you need to know

  • Written by: Christopher Blyth, Paediatrician, Infectious Diseases Physician and Clinical Microbiologist, University of Western Australia
Worried about your child getting coronavirus? Here's what you need to knowShutterstock

The new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease COVID-19, has infected nearly 90,000 people and caused more than 3,000 deaths so far.

Parents are understandably concerned. But it’s important to keep in mind that comparatively few children have tested positive for the virus, and deaths in children are very rare.

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From crocodiles to krill, a warming world raises the 'costs' paid by developing embryos

  • Written by: Dustin Marshall, Professor, Marine Evolutionary Ecology, Monash University
From crocodiles to krill, a warming world raises the 'costs' paid by developing embryosAuthor provided

Apart from mammals and birds, most animals develop as eggs exposed to the vagaries of the outside world. This development is energetically “costly”. Going from a tiny egg to a fully functioning organism can deplete up to 60% of the energy reserves provided by a parent.

In cold-blooded animals such as marine invertebrates...

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Petronius’s Satyricon – sex, satire and naughty boys

  • Written by: Tom Stevenson, Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient History, UQ, The University of Queensland
Petronius’s Satyricon – sex, satire and naughty boysMusée d'Orsay

The Satyricon by Petronius is an unusual surviving text from the ancient world. It is not a work of history, nor a work of soaring epic poetry like Homer’s Iliad or Virgil’s Aeneid, and for various reasons it is hard to get a handle on.

Its contents are pretty grubby because it is about lowlifes and lowlife...

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