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Explainer: what is phonics and why is it important?

  • Written by: Hua-Chen Wang, Postdoctoral research fellow, Macquarie University
imagePhonics helps teach children how to merge separate sounds together to make it one word.from www.shutterstock.com

The efficacy of phonics as a method of teaching has been debated for several decades, and has recently come back to the forefront of public debate.

This time, the focus is on the phonics check – a screening tool designed to identify...

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A new twist on fusion power could help bring limitless clean energy

  • Written by: Matthew Hole, Senior Research Fellow, Plasma Research Laboratory, Australian National University
imageThe superheated plasma inside the fusion reactor is twisted by magnetic fields.IPP, Matthias Otte

In a world struggling to kick its addiction to fossil fuels and feed its growing appetite for energy, there’s one technology in development that almost sounds too good to be true: nuclear fusion.

If it works, fusion power offers vast amounts of...

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What we can all learn from the VW emissions saga

  • Written by: Andrew Linden, Sessional/ PhD Candidate RMIT University, RMIT University

A year and a half after the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) alleged Volkswagen had installed software to circumvent emissions standards, the company has plead guilty to three criminal felony counts. Volkswagen (VW) will pay US$4.3 billion in criminal and civil penalties, and six executives and employees have been indicted.

But the VW...

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Scents, sensibility and the smell of a city

  • Written by: Tania Leimbach, PhD researcher, University of Technology Sydney
imageA girl smells an individually crafted scent at Cat Jones' Scent of Sydney. © Jamie Williams

If you were to create the scent of a city, how would you do it and where would your olfactory messages come from? It might be the smell of fresh bread and coffee. Or a trace of brine in the air with your morning swim. The stench of bus diesel on the way...

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  1. ASIC needs a win in 2017, but it's not likely to come from the banks
  2. How wearable devices are reinventing our cities as open-air gyms
  3. Health Check: is snoring anything to worry about?
  4. The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder finally hits the big-data highway
  5. Heed Hawke's call – Australian federalism is an idea whose time has ended
  6. The mosquito-borne Zika virus can also be transmitted by sexual activity
  7. What's the point of sex? It's communication at a biological level
  8. Game, set and match-fix: what more can be done to stop corruption in tennis?
  9. What can the medieval King Roger teach us about tolerance?
  10. Thinking about a sustainable retrofit? Here are three things to consider
  11. Australia must make the environment integral to economic decision-making
  12. Why did US President Obama seek to punish female Russian hacker Alisa Shevchenko?
  13. WA ReachTEL: 52-48 to Labor, but One Nation at 10.8%
  14. Ley goes, and Turnbull's reforms pave way for fewer expenses scandals
  15. Centrelink data-matching problems show the need for a government blockchain
  16. Should over 50’s avoid that afternoon coffee? Maybe.
  17. Trump, Putin and the new international order
  18. Indonesia’s Minangkabau culture promotes empowered Muslim women
  19. 9 ways 'won’t-power' is better than 'willpower' for resisting temptation and helping you eat better
  20. What is heart failure? It's not as common a cause of death as reports would have us believe
  21. How the insights of the Large Hadron Collider are being made open to everyone
  22. Is FIFA expanding the football World Cup for the good of the game?
  23. Are our busy doctors and nurses losing empathy for patients?
  24. For gangs with a social media presence like Apex, there’s no such thing as bad publicity
  25. Myuran Sukumaran's voice in his first exhibition is raw, premature and unsettling
  26. Hot dogs and cool cats: keeping pets cool without blowing your energy bill
  27. We need to find new ways to measure the Australian labour force
  28. Five things to consider when designing a policy to measure research impact
  29. How to manage Russia becomes one of the most pressing questions in US, and world, affairs
  30. Shorter or longer tennis matches: what's the right balance?
  31. Putin, the political technologist
  32. Explainer: why has Rod Culleton been disqualified from the Senate?
  33. Aboriginal Australians co-existed with the megafauna for at least 17,000 years
  34. 'I'm not a mind reader': understanding your partner's thoughts can be both good and bad
  35. Expenses reform is easy and essential – the only thing lacking is politicians' resolve to do it
  36. Beyond La La Land: the top ten toe-tapping film musicals
  37. Life in a post-flying Australia, and why it might actually be ok
  38. There is no silver bullet to stop fraudsters
  39. Trump and Showering Golden
  40. Note to Centrelink: Australian workers' lives have changed
  41. Hospitals feel the heat too from extreme weather and its health impacts
  42. Bright Lights – a TV farewell to Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
  43. School dress 'debate' is a nonsense: just have a range of options, and let students choose
  44. Children learn empathy growing up, but can we train adults to have more of it?
  45. James Hird's suspected drug overdose: invasive reporting breaches a right to privacy
  46. Can poetry stop a highway? Wielding words in the battle over Roe 8
  47. Old floods show Brisbane's next big wet might be closer than we think
  48. Why are most people right handed? The answer may be in the mouths of our ancestors
  49. Book Review: Trillion Dollar Baby
  50. How virtual reality technology is changing the way students learn

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