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Small world: does ecology reach all the way down to the subatomic scale?

  • Written by: Peter Fisher, Adjunct Professor, Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
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Without electrons there would be no electron microscopes, and therefore no close-ups like this image of pollen.
Heiti Paves/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Imagine you could stop being human-sized for a while and shrink down to the size of a bacterium, roughly one-millionth of your current stature. At this scale, you would stop being bound by gravity...

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Nauru abuse reports should mark an opportunity for compassion, not more dehumanisation

  • Written by: Melanie Baak, Convener, Refugee and Migration Research Network, University of South Australia
imagePeter Dutton suggested asylum seekers in detention on Nauru have self-harmed in order to get to Australia.AAP/Dan Peled

Since The Guardian Australia released more than 2,000 leaked reports of abuse in the Nauru detention centre, there have been calls to do something – from a royal commission to public protests.

But what we need most is a call f...

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Explainer: what is psychoanalysis?

  • Written by: Christine Brett Vickers, Honorary Research Fellow in History, La Trobe University
imagePsychoanalysis is based on the belief our behaviours have an underlying cause from earlier in life. from www.shutterstock.com.au

Psychoanalysis or psychoanalytic psychotherapy is a way of treating longstanding psychological problems that is based on the belief behaviours have underlying drivers which may be unrecognised and unconscious.

With this...

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The Dobell Drawing Biennial: modestly staged, impressively rendered

  • Written by: Andrew Frost, Lecturer in Media, Macquarie University
imageHalfway to the light, halfway through the night 2010-14, by Jumaadi© AGNSW, Felicity Jenkins

There’s a big difference between a biennale and a biennial. Although both words simply mean an event that’s held every two years, in an art world context they have very different connotations.

The former is the posh Italian word for a...

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  2. 'No More Hunger' Games: if only we cared about the real-world Liveability Olympics
  3. Western democracy needs humility to step beyond its own shadow
  4. Standardised curriculums in Indian universities are not helping to improve academic quality
  5. The legacy of Glenn Stevens in three lessons
  6. Just for you: how to create sounds that only you can hear in a venue
  7. The $8.2 billion water bill to clean up the Barrier Reef by 2025 – and where to start
  8. Vital Signs: US scores while Australia struggles
  9. NAPLAN data is not comparable across school years
  10. Higher, faster, stronger: Olympic athletics by numbers
  11. Cutting to numb the pain of sex abuse: interviews with young women in drug treatment
  12. Friday essay: reflections on the idea of a common humanity
  13. How temporary migration is changing Australia – and the world
  14. Root of census failures say badly done IBM and ABS. Still down for some.
  15. Grattan on Friday: There's seldom been a harder time to get things done
  16. Ausgrid: electricity decision fails to shock
  17. Changing state-owned enterprises provide less cause for Chinese investment fears
  18. Going for... green? Why Rio's swimming pools are changing colour
  19. Stopping land clearing and replanting trees could help keep Australia cool in a warmer future
  20. Morrison blocks Chinese bids for NSW power grid
  21. A solution to antibiotic resistance may have been under our noses all along
  22. Why Australian women over 55 aren't exactly enjoying the time of their lives
  23. Angry Turnbull flags heads will roll over census disaster
  24. Explainer: what makes a winning swimmer?
  25. Companions of Earth: minimoons, quasi-satellites and horseshoes
  26. All hail the bookshop: survivor against the odds
  27. Will Chinese investment sacrifice Ukraine's dreams of democracy to economic needs?
  28. The Galileo gambit and other stories: the three main tactics of climate denial
  29. Hunting, fishing and farming remain the biggest threats to wildlife
  30. The curious incentives and consequences of negative gearing
  31. Science or snake oil? Do the enduring Hydroxycut weight-loss products work?
  32. Homosexuality and the Olympic movement: towards better Games
  33. Incest: why is 'worst of the worst' abuse so often ignored?
  34. Meme wars: Lush, Hillary Clinton and graffiti on Instagram
  35. Nine years after the Pasha Bulker storm, we're finally getting a handle on East Coast Lows
  36. Reserve Bank governor calls for hard talk about budget repair
  37. Did the Census really suffer a denial-of-service 'attack'?
  38. Nauru abuse reports warrant urgent action to protect children in offshore detention
  39. Putting audiences, as well as actors, in the hot seat
  40. People have lost faith in privatisation and it's easy to see why
  41. Turnbull to Australians: your census data is safe despite attack
  42. With a vote delayed, where does this leave constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians?
  43. Weekly Dose: triptans, drugs that relieve migraine but only if taken at the right time
  44. Drowning by averages: did the ABS miscalculate the Census load?
  45. Explainer: what is age-related macular degeneration?
  46. Andrew Bolt and ACMA: should 'hyperbole' get in the way of accuracy?
  47. Census website cracks after 'malicious' attack by hackers
  48. Change Agents: Rhonda Galbally and Bruce Bonyhady on the birth of the NDIS
  49. Natural selection may be the answer to the cancer riddle, but can we beat evolution?
  50. Are the Rio 2016 Games a true measure of Australia's Winning Edge?

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