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Curious Kids: why are there waves?

  • Written by: Mark Hemer, Senior Research Scientist, Oceans and Atmosphere, CSIRO
Curious Kids: why are there waves?Nina Maile Gordon/The Conversation, CC BY-NC-ND

Curious Kids is a series for children. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au You might also like the podcast Imagine This, a co-production between ABC KIDS listen and The Conversation, based on Curious Kids.


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six ingredients of successful public policy

  • Written by: Joannah Luetjens, PhD Candidate, Utrecht University
six ingredients of successful public policyAustralia’s national policy response to HIV/AIDS has been lauded as one of the best in the world.Shutterstock

In the lead up to the recent federal election, there was plenty of negative rhetoric about current policy settings. Piecing together the various messages, it seems we have entered an armageddon of poor fiscal management, intolerable...

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Why Sydney residents use 30% more water per day than Melburnians

  • Written by: Ian Wright, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University
Why Sydney residents use 30% more water per day than MelburniansMelbourne's water supplies are running low after years of drought.shutterstock

This week Melbourne’s water storage dropped below 50%, a sign of the prolonged and deepening drought gripping eastern Australia. Sydney is only marginally better off, at 53.8% of full storage.

Along with many regional towns across southeastern Australia, the two...

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Population DNA testing for disease risk is coming. Here are five things to know

  • Written by: Paul Lacaze, Head, Public Health Genomics Program, Monash University
Population DNA testing for disease risk is coming. Here are five things to knowScreening millions of healthy people for their risk of disease can be cost-effective. But it raises ethical and regulatory concerns.from www.shutterstock.com

DNA testing to predict disease risk has the potential to prevent disease and save lives. Yet few Australians can currently access predictive DNA testing via the health-care system.

That may...

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  1. Friday essay: YouTube apologies and reality TV revelations
  2. If you think less immigration will solve Australia's problems, you're wrong; but neither will more
  3. Let them play! Kids need freedom from play restrictions to develop
  4. the tall buildings of Australia show why we need strong design guidelines
  5. How the dangerous evolution of Pakistan’s national security state threatens domestic stability
  6. Gamers use machine learning to navigate complex video games – but it's not free
  7. Shocked Labor moves on – but to what policy destination?
  8. Narendra Modi has won the largest election in the world. What will this mean for India?
  9. the ABC of screenwriting as demonstrated by ABC's The Heights
  10. hope and action in the climate crisis
  11. Australia has been silent on Indigenous suicide for too long, and it must change
  12. Albanese gets clear run to leadership
  13. Blocking Huawei from Australia means slower and delayed 5G – and for what?
  14. Newspoll probably wrong since Morrison became PM; polling has been less accurate at recent elections
  15. how was the Earth made?
  16. Five aspects of Pentecostalism that shed light on Scott Morrison's politics
  17. How we solved the mystery of Libyan desert glass
  18. Where to now for unions and 'change the rules'?
  19. Eastern China pinpointed as source of rogue ozone-depleting emissions
  20. Why the 2019 election was more like 2004 than 1993 – and Labor has some reason to hope
  21. Rethinking tourism so the locals actually benefit from hosting visitors
  22. Aboriginal Australians want care after brain injury. But it must consider their cultural needs
  23. Wind in Albanese's sails as Chalmers weighs options
  24. With the LNP returned to power, is there anything left in Adani's way?
  25. New data shows sex offenders in Victoria are going to prison for longer
  26. don't judge, try to understand us
  27. In a notoriously sexist art form, Australian women composers are making their voices heard
  28. Sex trafficking's tragic paradox: when victims become perpetrators
  29. Charging the Christchurch mosque attacker with terrorism could be risky – but it's important
  30. Cutting interest rates is just the start. It's about to become much, much easier to borrow
  31. 2019 federal election showed Australian media need better regulation
  32. Aboriginal mothers are incarcerated at alarming rates – and their mental and physical health suffers
  33. From sharks in seagrass to manatees in mangroves, we've found large marine species in some surprising places
  34. some Western Australian reefs have the lowest coral cover on record
  35. 3 lessons from behavioural economics Bill Shorten's Labor Party forgot about
  36. The 'pulse' of a volcano can be used to help predict its next eruption
  37. Ennigaldi-Nanna, curator of the world's first museum
  38. How close is Sydney to the vision of creating three 30-minute cities?
  39. Queensland paper backtracks after using violent imagery to depict Annastacia Palaszczuk
  40. Bowen carries baggage into Labor leadership contest
  41. US-China relations are certainly at a low point, but this is not the next Cold War
  42. Here's how to make opinion polls more representative and honest
  43. After Clive Palmer's $60 million campaign, limits on political advertising are more important than ever
  44. Teenagers need our support, not criticism, as they navigate life online
  45. Rockabul, a tale of a metal band in Kabul, reinvigorates the radical spirit of rock 'n' roll
  46. why do we lose our baby teeth?
  47. Curious Kids: why do we sigh?
  48. After 8 years of memes, videos and role playing, what now for Game of Thrones' multimedia fans?
  49. Turning methane into carbon dioxide could help us fight climate change
  50. Going up. Monday showed what the market thinks of Morrison

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