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Silver makes beautiful bling but it's also good for keeping the bacterial bugs away

  • Written by: Mark Blaskovich, Senior Research Officer, The University of Queensland
Silver makes beautiful bling but it's also good for keeping the bacterial bugs awaySilver has been used to make jewellery for centuries but it's also good at killing bacteria and could be used in new antibiotics.Shutterstock/Santi S

To mark the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements we’re taking a look at some of the elements used by researchers in their work.

Today’s focus is silver, an element...

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Not everyone cares about climate change, but reproach won't change their minds

  • Written by: Chloe Lucas, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Tasmania

So much for Australia’s “climate election”. In the event, voters in last month’s federal poll didn’t put climate policy at the top of their wish list.

Contrary to opinion polls predicting a groundswell of support for Labor’s relatively progressive agenda on climate and economics, the election results revealed...

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Selective schools mainly 'select' advantage, so another one won't ease Sydney's growing pains

  • Written by: Christina Ho, Senior Lecturer, Social & Political Sciences, University of Technology Sydney

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has re-ignited the ongoing debate about selective schools by announcing a new selective school will be built in the “key growth area” of southwest Sydney. In announcing the school, the premier said:

There is strong demand for selective schools, with around 15,000 applications for only 4,200 places. This...

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What's so special about the Mona Lisa?

  • Written by: Susan Broomhall, Professor of History, University of Western Australia
What's so special about the Mona Lisa?Mona Lisa, Musée du Louvre, Paris, April 2019.Susan Broomhall

Every day, thousands of people from around the world crowd into a stark, beige room at Paris’s Louvre Museum to view its single mounted artwork, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.

To do so, they walk straight past countless masterpieces of the European Renaissance. So why...

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