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Hunting, fishing and farming remain the biggest threats to wildlife

  • Written by: Sean Maxwell, PhD candidate, The University of Queensland
imageSnow leopards are just one of the species still threatened by hunting. from www.shutterstock.com

History might judge the Paris climate agreement to be a watershed for all humanity. If nations succeed in halting runaway climate change, this will have enormous positive implications for life on Earth.

Yet as the world applauds a momentous shift toward...

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Science or snake oil? Do the enduring Hydroxycut weight-loss products work?

  • Written by: Nicholas Fuller, Research Fellow, Clinical Trials Development and Assessment, University of Sydney
imageYou've probably seen it in the supermarket, and maybe even thought about buying it, but it probably doesn't work.Mike Mozart/Flickr, CC BY-SA

Despite several safety recalls of this brand of dietary weight-loss supplements over the past decade, “Hydroxycut” still continues to sell. Consumers continue to buy it despite its main...

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Homosexuality and the Olympic movement: towards better Games

  • Written by: Ian Jobling, Honorary Reader and Director of the Centre for Olympic Studies in the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Studies, The University of Queensland

Sport remains “one of the last bastions of cultural and institutional homophobia” in Western societies. The first openly gay Olympians did not compete until the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics.

But the first known gay Olympic athlete was actually Otto Peltzer, a German middle-distance runner who competed in the 1928 Amsterdam and 1932 Los...

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  1. Incest: why is 'worst of the worst' abuse so often ignored?
  2. Meme wars: Lush, Hillary Clinton and graffiti on Instagram
  3. Nine years after the Pasha Bulker storm, we're finally getting a handle on East Coast Lows
  4. Reserve Bank governor calls for hard talk about budget repair
  5. Did the Census really suffer a denial-of-service 'attack'?
  6. Nauru abuse reports warrant urgent action to protect children in offshore detention
  7. Putting audiences, as well as actors, in the hot seat
  8. People have lost faith in privatisation and it's easy to see why
  9. Turnbull to Australians: your census data is safe despite attack
  10. With a vote delayed, where does this leave constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians?
  11. Weekly Dose: triptans, drugs that relieve migraine but only if taken at the right time
  12. Drowning by averages: did the ABS miscalculate the Census load?
  13. Explainer: what is age-related macular degeneration?
  14. Andrew Bolt and ACMA: should 'hyperbole' get in the way of accuracy?
  15. Census website cracks after 'malicious' attack by hackers
  16. Change Agents: Rhonda Galbally and Bruce Bonyhady on the birth of the NDIS
  17. Natural selection may be the answer to the cancer riddle, but can we beat evolution?
  18. Are the Rio 2016 Games a true measure of Australia's Winning Edge?
  19. More than fun: capitalising sport’s social goods
  20. Business Briefing: the big bucks of broadcasting the Olympics
  21. Rigs to reefs: is it better to leave disused oil platforms where they stand?
  22. Words stripped of meaning: a guide to linguistic spam
  23. ABS's night of disaster as servers crash and millions fail to complete the census
  24. The battle over the census is likely to continue well beyond census night
  25. Medicines to treat side effects of other medicines? Sometimes less is more beneficial
  26. Being 'job ready' is not the purpose of university science degrees
  27. Here's what Australia can do to help end the Chinese organ trade
  28. Dolly the Sheep and the human cloning debate - twenty years later
  29. What Australia needs to do to protect consumers from untested stem-cell treatments
  30. #CensusFail: the ABS hasn't convinced the public their privacy is protected
  31. Horton wins by naming the elephant in the room at Rio Olympics
  32. Smart cities: does this mean more transport disruptions?
  33. Why credit rating agencies' economic advice shouldn't be trusted
  34. Can big data studies know your thoughts and predict who will win an election?
  35. Australians should also worry about white extremists in our own backyard
  36. Why talent transfer is key for a winning rugby Sevens team
  37. Land of the 'fair go' no more: wealth in Australia is becoming more unequal
  38. Ad skipping and blocking could spur an advertising arms race
  39. Why is doping wrong anyway?
  40. Answering the same questions over and over: how to talk to people with dementia
  41. Australia needs better policy to end the alarming increase in land clearing
  42. Here’s looking at: 'Boy with a straw hat ...' by Diane Arbus
  43. Explainer: the mysterious missing magnetic monopole
  44. Costello questions what the Turnbull government can achieve
  45. Does racism make us sick?
  46. Health Check: do cough medicines work?
  47. Free speech: would removing Section 18C really give us the right to be bigots?
  48. I won't be giving my name to census: Xenophon
  49. Explainer: what is the census, and why does it matter?
  50. FactCheck: do welfare recipients owe the Australian government about $3.5 billion?

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