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Bougainville has voted to become a new country, but the journey to independence is not yet over

  • Written by: Anna Powles, Senior Lecturer in Security Studies, Massey University

The Autonomous Region of Bougainville, a chain of islands that lie 959 kilometres northwest of Papua New Guinea’s capital, Port Moresby, has voted unequivocally for independence.

The referendum saw 85% voter turnout during three weeks of voting, with 97.7% of voters choosing independence from Papua New Guinea over the second option, which was...

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Friday essay: eco-disaster films in the 21st century

  • Written by: Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
Friday essay: eco-disaster films in the 21st centuryA scene from the 2017 film Geostorm: many societies have historically attempted to deal with collective trauma by replaying and restaging it in art.Warner Bros., Electric Entertainment, Rat Pac-Dune Entertainment

It seems like every time we switch on the idiot box we are confronted with news footage of another disaster. Bushfires in Australia. A hur...

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A new study shows an animal's lifespan is written in the DNA. For humans, it's 38 years

  • Written by: Benjamin Mayne, Molecular biologist and bioinformatician, CSIRO
A new study shows an animal's lifespan is written in the DNA. For humans, it's 38 yearsA genetic "clock" lets scientists estimate how long extinct creatures lived. Wooly mammoths could expect around 60 years.Australian Museum

Humans have a “natural” lifespan of around 38 years, according to a new method we have developed for estimating the lifespans of different species by analysing their DNA.

Extrapolating from genetic...

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