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Some women feel grief after an abortion, but there's no evidence of serious mental health issues

  • Written by: Kirsten Black, Associate Professor & Joint Head of Discipline Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Neonatology, University of Sydney
Some women feel grief after an abortion, but there's no evidence of serious mental health issuesThe range of normal emotions after an abortion can include grief, regret, sadness and relief.Photo by Ashton Bingham on Unsplash

This week, the website Mamamia published, and then quickly removed, an article about the existence of “post-abortion syndrome” – a disorder apparently experienced by many women who have had an abortion....

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Academics call on Facebook to make data more widely available for research

  • Written by: Shelley Hepworth, Section Editor: Technology, The Conversation

A group of 20 academics based at universities around the world have written an open letter to Facebook, calling on the company to rethink how it engages with the research community.

In the wake of recent controversies over privacy, Facebook recently announced restrictions to third-party access to public user data via its Application Programming...

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Experiment shows Einstein's quantum 'spooky action' approaches the human scale

  • Written by: Matt Woolley, Senior Lecturer in Electrical Engineering, UNSW
Experiment shows Einstein's quantum 'spooky action' approaches the human scaleAn illustration of the two 20-micrometre-wide vibrating drumheads, each composed of trillions of atoms, in an entangled quantum state of motion. Petja Hyttinen and Olli Hanhirova, ARKH Architects Ltd., Author provided

Quantum physics is often defined as the physics of the very small – think atoms, electrons and photons.

But we have managed to...

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can they make us smarter?

  • Written by: Siobhan Schabrun, Research Fellow in Brain Plasticity and Rehabilitation, Western Sydney University
can they make us smarter?Could it be this easy?from www.shutterstock.com

This is part of our series on Changing the Brain, about what’s happening in our brain in various mental states and how we can change it for the better and worse.

Demand for drugs and devices that can enhance brain functions such as memory, creativity, attention and intelligence, is on the rise....

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