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Mapping the brain: scientists define 180 distinct regions, but what now?

  • Written by: Pankaj Sah, Director - Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland
imageA team of American researchers have mapped the cerebral cortex into 180 distinct regions. from shutterstock.com

In big news for neuroscience, a team of American researchers recently mapped the human brain’s outler layer, the cerebral cortex, into 180 distinct regions.

Using imaging data from the Human Connectome Project – a United States...

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Reimagining NSW: how good governance strengthens democracy

  • Written by: Carolien van Ham, Lecturer in Comparative Politics, UNSW Australia

This is part of our Reimagining New South Wales (NSW) series. For this series, vice-chancellors across NSW asked a select group of early and mid-career researchers to envisage new ways to tackle old problems and identify emerging opportunities across the state.

Many people are watching the Donald Trump campaign in the US and wondering: how has it...

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Can we predict who will turn to crime?

  • Written by: Paul McGorrery, PhD Candidate (Criminal Law), Deakin University
imagePredicting whether a child will commit a crime before their 18th birthday is fraught with problems.Shutterstock/Tomsickova Tatyana

Is it possible to predict whether someone will commit a crime some time in the future? It sounds like an idea from the 2002 science-fiction movie Minority Report.

But that’s what statistical researcher Richard...

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Nostalgia, VHS and Stranger Things' homage to 80s horror

  • Written by: Mark Steven, Research Fellow, UNSW Australia
imageThe poster for Stranger Things, which stars Winona Ryder, Matthew Modine and some brilliantly charismatic newcomers. 21 Laps Entertainment

Stranger Things is the newest binge-worthy series on Netflix. Set during the winter of 1983 in the fictional township of Hawkins, Indiana, its eight episodes tell the story of a boy’s disappearance and...

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  2. Russian doping scandal: should other countries pull out of the Olympics?
  3. WA Senate result: 5 Liberals, 4 Labor, 2 Greens, 1 One Nation
  4. The return of the breeze block
  5. The off-topic Conversation #104
  6. Windows 10 one year on: it's evolving but privacy still a concern
  7. Lichens may be a symbiosis of three organisms; a new Order of fungus named
  8. Janis Joplin and Sharon Jones add a feminist beat to the Melbourne Film Festival
  9. Juvenile detention royal commissioners must reach out to rebuild public trust
  10. Health Check: should we be using alcohol-based hand sanitisers?
  11. Gooda and White announced as heads of royal commission into NT youth detention
  12. Reimagining NSW: four ways to boost community well-being and why it matters
  13. Indonesia's new cabinet built on political transactions
  14. A complacent, secretive IMF failed to deal with EU crisis; what's changed?
  15. Commuters help regions tap into city-driven growth
  16. The casual stigmatisation of opioid use is lazy journalism
  17. Reimagining NSW: how the care economy could help unclog our cities
  18. Australia can learn from the limitations of New Zealand's welfare reforms
  19. Why it's so hard to 'eat local' when it comes to fish
  20. Childhood cancer deaths have fallen in Australia, but some types remain more of a challenge
  21. Please rewind: a final farewell to the VCR
  22. Should we be locking people up in prisons at all?
  23. Why arts schools matter, not just for art's sake but for urban renewal in Sydney and other cities
  24. Labor's Herbert win means Turnbull has a majority of only one
  25. Capitalism and Democracy [part 2]
  26. Why multicultural policy looms as a Senate bargaining chip
  27. Rudd correspondence to Turnbull: you said you supported me many times
  28. Politics podcast: Tiernan Brady on the campaign for same-sex marriage
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  30. Turnbull ban on Rudd's UN bid gives Liberal conservatives a win over Bishop
  31. Consumers lose out to Australia's protectionist anti-dumping laws
  32. The tragi-comedy Down Under appropriates Cronulla rather than offering insight
  33. As Indonesia conducts more executions, Australia's anti-death-penalty advocacy is still lacking
  34. Kevin gets canned
  35. How fiction helps us understand the reality of a mother abandoning her newborn baby
  36. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the Don Dale royal commission
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  38. Turnbull kills Rudd's UN secretary-general bid
  39. No Kevin '17: Turnbull opts not to back Rudd for the UN's top job
  40. Being transgender is not a mental illness, and the WHO should acknowledge this
  41. The NT royal commission: it's a good start but more leadership is needed
  42. Report on industry assistance needs to go beyond just reporting costs
  43. Friday essay: worth a thousand words – how photos shape attitudes to refugees
  44. Separated parents and the family law system: what does the evidence say?
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