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New research could lead to a pregnancy test for endangered marsupials

  • Written by: Oliver Griffith, ARC DECRA Fellow, University of Melbourne
New research could lead to a pregnancy test for endangered marsupialsKnew you were coming: a koala cub on the back of the mother.Shutterstock/PARFENOV

Many women realise they are pregnant before they’ve even done the test – perhaps feeling a touch of nausea, or tender, larger-than-usual breasts.

For a long time, biologists had thought most marsupials lacked a way to recognise a pregnancy.

But new...

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Frozen was our most important feminist film but the sequel won't have the same impact

  • Written by: Darren Paul Fisher, Head of Directing, Department of Film, Screen and Creative Media, Bond University
Frozen was our most important feminist film but the sequel won't have the same impactKristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Josh Gad, and Jonathan Groff in Frozen II (2019). Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney Pictures

“Elsa, the past is not what it seems.” The opening line from the latest Frozen II trailer invites us to revisit not only the original world of the film but to re-think its meaning.

Of course, this is a...

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how Australia and the US can remain close despite the threat

  • Written by: Charles Edel, Senior Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney

Ask nearly any politician in Canberra or Washington and they will tell you Australia and the United States have a long and storied history as close allies.

The two nations have fought side-by-side in every major conflict for the past 100 years and remained treaty allies since 1951. On the economic front, the United States is simultaneously the large...

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Here's what teachers look for when kids start school

  • Written by: Amy Graham, PhD Candidate, Charles Darwin University
Here's what teachers look for when kids start schoolTeachers don't care about a child's academic skills as much as they do about their behaviour.from shutterstock.com

Many parents believe teaching their child to read is the best way to get them ready to start school, but teachers often disagree. Teachers generally consider it more important for children to know how to regulate their emotions, be...

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  2. Can a sperm donor be a legal parent? In landmark decision, the High Court says yes
  3. Australia's energy exports increase global greenhouse emissions, not decrease them
  4. Playing games? It's a serious way to win community backing for change
  5. Four laws that need urgent reform to protect both national security and press freedom
  6. Netflix is opening its first Australian HQ. What does this mean for the local screen industry?
  7. Sport is full of conspiracy theories – Chris Froome’s horrific cycling crash is just the latest example
  8. 50 years after Australia's historic 'equal pay' decision, the legacy of 'women's work' remains
  9. The three things universities must do to survive disruption
  10. What do Aboriginal Australians want from their aged care system? Community connection is number one
  11. Setka gets backing from group of unions as split deepens
  12. US-Iran conflict escalates again, raising the threat of another war in the Middle East
  13. Paladin contract secrecy highlights our broken refugee system
  14. Turning local libraries, pools and playgroups into sites of surveillance – ParentsNext goes too far
  15. Why the Australasian Health Star Rating needs major changes to make it work
  16. a stylish, enjoyable, historically informed opera premiere
  17. How to answer the argument that Australia's emissions are too small to make a difference
  18. Below zero is ‘reverse’. How the Reserve Bank would make quantitative easing work
  19. Five films not to miss from the 2019 Sydney Film Festival
  20. How advertising can repurpose itself to serve cities in more sustainable ways
  21. CSIRO Australian National Outlook 2019
  22. the first people to arrive in Australia came in large numbers, and on purpose
  23. what is fibromyalgia, the condition Lady Gaga lives with?
  24. education divide explains the Coalition's upset victory
  25. forget court action – you won't win
  26. what is 'hybrid warfare' and what is meant by the 'grey zone'?
  27. Pressure builds with more protests in Hong Kong, but what's the end game?
  28. There's a looming waste crisis from Australia's solar energy boom
  29. who came up with the first letters?
  30. With climate change likely to sharpen conflict, NZ balances pacifist traditions with defence spending
  31. how retailers bury customers in an avalanche of choice
  32. We asked people to do climate change maths. Their answers depended on their politics
  33. What's the point of education? It's no longer just about getting a job
  34. Beware the teething trap. Many products don't work, and can even be dangerous
  35. More students are going to university than before, but those at risk of dropping out need more help
  36. how remote communities are building on payment for ecosystem services
  37. The New York Times ends daily political cartoons, but it's not the death of the art form
  38. Young Australians champion 'democracy' and 'freedom' in designing constitutional change
  39. Australia's pristine beaches have a poo problem
  40. Lambie's vote key if government wants to have medevac repealed
  41. Quantum physics experiment shows Heisenberg was right about uncertainty, in a certain sense
  42. Setka furore opens division within the labour movement – and there is no easy solution
  43. Michelle Grattan on John Setka, press freedom, Adani approval and tax
  44. Built like buildings, boab trees are life-savers with a chequered past
  45. Proposal to mine fossil-rich site in New Zealand sparks campaign to protect it
  46. what it's like to be a pensioner renting privately as Australia's housing costs soar
  47. How a cyber attack hampered Hong Kong protesters
  48. is white meat as bad for your cholesterol levels as red meat?
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