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Sleep won't cure the coronavirus but it can help our bodies fight it

  • Written by: Cassandra Pattinson, Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
Sleep won't cure the coronavirus but it can help our bodies fight itShutterstock

Getting a good night’s sleep can be difficult at the best of times. But it can be even harder when you’re anxious or have something on your mind – a global pandemic, for example.

Right now though, getting a good night’s sleep could be more important than ever.

Sleep is essential for maintaining our health and mood....

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Can I visit my boyfriend? My parents? Go fishing or bushwalking? Coronavirus rules in the ACT and South Australia explained

  • Written by: Michael Lund, Commissioning Editor, The Conversation
Can I visit my boyfriend? My parents? Go fishing or bushwalking? Coronavirus rules in the ACT and South Australia explainedFlickr/Chris Fithall, CC BY

Editor’s note: this article adds to the information we already published for New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria, and we will endeavour to update with information as we are able to collect it.

What you can and can’t do under the coronavirus restrictions seem to vary from place to place so no wonder people...

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This lizard lays eggs and gives live birth. We think it's undergoing a major evolutionary transition

  • Written by: Charles Foster, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Sydney
This lizard lays eggs and gives live birth. We think it's undergoing a major evolutionary transitionNicholas Wu, Author provided

Our earliest vertebrate (animals with backbones) ancestors laid eggs, but over millions of years of evolution, some species began to give birth to live young.

There is a traditional dichotomy in vertebrate reproduction: species either lay eggs or have live births. However, as is often the case in biology, things...

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Vale Bruce Dawe, Australia's 'Poet of Suburbia'

  • Written by: Kevin John Brophy, Emeritus Professor of Creative writing, University of Melbourne
Vale Bruce Dawe, Australia's 'Poet of Suburbia'Lennon Cheng/Unsplash, CC BY

“Katrina, I had in mind a prayer, but only this came,” Bruce Dawe wrote to his infant daughter, new-born, in intensive care, her life in the balance, declaring as poets must that their poems are the best and only real gift they can give.

I did not know Dawe, who died aged 90 on Wednesday, but I knew his...

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