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We've detected new gravitational waves, we just don't know where they come from (yet)

  • Written by: Tara Murphy, Professor and ARC Future Fellow, University of Sydney
We've detected new gravitational waves, we just don't know where they come from (yet)A visualisation of a binary neutron star merger.NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab

The hunt for gravitational waves is back on with the announcement overnight of the detection of signals from what’s thought to be the merger of two neutron stars, the incredibly dense remains of a collapsed star.

The signals were actually picked up on...

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Tampa and the national security election of 2001

  • Written by: Gwenda Tavan, Associate Professor, Politics and International Relations, La Trobe University
Tampa and the national security election of 2001Front pages from Australian newspapers covering terrorist attacks on the United States. AAP Image

With taxes and health care emerging as key issues in the upcoming federal election, we’re running a series this week looking at the main issues that swung elections in the past, from agricultural workers’ wages to the Vietnam War. Read...

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how do babies learn to talk?

  • Written by: Christa Lam-Cassettari, Interim Leader MARCS Institute BabyLab, Western Sydney University
how do babies learn to talk?The experience that babies get from eavesdropping on their mother’s conversations in utero helps their brain tune into the language that they will learn to speak once they are born.Emily Nunnell/The Conversation CC-BY-ND, CC BY-SA

Curious Kids is a series for children. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to...

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Puckish charm and no politicians: the 2019 Archibald Prize

  • Written by: Joanna Mendelssohn, Honorary Associate Professor, Art & Design: UNSW Australia. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, UNSW
Puckish charm and no politicians: the 2019 Archibald PrizeDetail from Archibald Prize 2019 finalist Keith Burt, 'Benjamin Law: happy sad' oil on canvas, 59.5 x 59.5 cm, © the artist.Photo: AGNSW, Jenni Carter Sitter: Benjamin Law - author, journalist and broadcaster

In a continuation of a recent trend, there are no politicians in this year’s Archibald Prize. The last time a portrait of a...

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  1. The tasty, weed-like desert raisin plant is as big as a carpark
  2. local voices on how the 1973 Aquarius Festival changed a town forever
  3. the dramatic and inglorious fall of Joh Bjelke-Petersen
  4. Julian Assange has refused to surrender himself for extradition to the US. What now?
  5. Leaders try to dodge them. Voters aren't watching. So, are debates still relevant?
  6. Fixing the gap between Labor's greenhouse gas goals and their policies
  7. more preference deals as pre-polling begins
  8. It's not clear where human rights fit in the legal ruling on athlete Caster Semenya
  9. managing type 2 diabetes during Ramadan
  10. How hard is it to say 'no' to drugs?
  11. How to increase train use by up to 35% with one simple trick
  12. policies come and policies go, but surely we shouldn't be subsidising inheritances
  13. $20 billion per year. That's how much higher superannuation could take from wages
  14. Pacific countries score well in media freedom index, but reality is far worse
  15. A guide to ensure everyone plays by the same military rules in space: the Woomera Manual
  16. Friday essay: networked hatred - new technology and the rise of the right
  17. We need to treat borderline personality disorder for what it really is – a response to trauma
  18. Labor wants to keep climate debate in the clouds
  19. Blockchain can help break the chains of modern slavery, but it is not a complete solution
  20. UK becomes first country to declare a 'climate emergency'
  21. Young people won't accept inaction on climate change, and they'll be voting in droves
  22. what does Clive Palmer actually want?
  23. The exhibition Tudors to Windsors is an uncritical glorification of empire
  24. rural voters get a voice and topple a government in 1913
  25. The Conversation needs your help
  26. how does preferential voting work in the House of Representatives?
  27. how does preferential voting work in the Senate?
  28. what's the point of nits?!
  29. Indonesia isn't the only country planning new cities. Why not Australia?
  30. It's time to vote for happiness and well-being, not mere economic growth. Here's why:
  31. Pregnant women and babies can be vegans but careful nutrition planning is essential
  32. Labor wants to restore 'demand driven' funding to universities: what does this mean?
  33. Eliza Winstanley, colonial stage star and our first female Richard III
  34. how digital advertising is shaping this election campaign
  35. Can Labor's animal welfare plan improve Australia's lacklustre record?
  36. Psst... wanna buy a necklace? Humans have been faking jewellery for thousands of years
  37. How 'flags of convenience' have shrunk Australia's merchant fleet
  38. Victorian Liberal candidates find social media footprints lethal
  39. Politics with Michelle Grattan: Tim Colebatch on the battle in Victoria
  40. Shorten distances himself from Green overtures on climate policy
  41. Uranium mines harm Indigenous people – so why have we approved a new one?
  42. an exotic radical who rejected the establishment
  43. How the major parties’ Indigenous health election commitments stack up
  44. a valid argument let down by selective science and over-the-top claims
  45. Labor's anti-war message falls flat in landslide loss in 1966
  46. Are too many corporate mergers harming consumers? We won't know if we don't check
  47. the 'unlosable election' of 1993 still resonates loudly
  48. How we used CRISPR to narrow in on a possible antidote to box jellyfish venom
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