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Huge genetic study finds strong links between DNA and personality traits
A study of more than 1 million people found genetic influences on the Big Five traits that shape our personality.
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Art Centre Melbourne workers face a battle between industrial and cultural policy
Disputes from 1944 to today trace the increasingly central role of government funding in shaping working conditions in the arts.
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Can Australian businesses legally ban customers from using smart glasses?
An outright ban is legally risky. Here are some safer options.
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Thousands of Australians received infected blood, over decades. Now they’ll have their say
Thousands of Australians unwittingly contracted HIV and hepatitis C before donated blood was routinely tested. Could a new Senate inquiry mean fairer compensation?
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Trust is key: why home energy upgrades need more than rebates
Research suggests relationships are key to ensuring home energy upgrade programs work.
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Top 30 NZ news media you should follow this election and the Top 5 you should ignore – The Daily Blog
COMMENTARY: By Martyn Bradbury, editor and publisher of The Daily Blog This New Zealand general election on November 7 has an enormous amount at stake. If this hard-right coalition government gets re-elected to cement into place 19th Century Settler White Privilege using an anti-Māori, anti-Treaty, anti-beneficiary, anti-worker, anti-renter and anti-environment agenda for their donors interests,…
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Yosemite, again in corporate crosshairs, embodies the long war over US national park privatization
Debate over turning public national park land into private profit dates back more than a century.
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How underwater ‘booms’ could provide earlier warning of deadly volcanic tsunamis
Underwater sound signals created by 2022’s enormous Hunga eruption have pointed scientists to a new way to warn people of unpredictable volcanic tsunamis.
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Will AI save or ruin democracy? It depends on whether we allow computers to stand in for people
Have we become trapped in thinking that better politics is just a technical fix away?
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How cities can use rain gardens to help prevent flooding
While rain gardens are useful, how and where they are planted can impact how beneficial they are.
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Ancient fossil from China reveals animal-microbe partnerships dating back 550 million years
A sulfur-oxidizing bacteria may have turned a hostile environment into an ecological opportunity for the ancient conotubus organism.
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Iraq’s archaeological discoveries have shaped understanding of human civilisation – but its scientists have been sidelined
The centenaries of some of Iraq’s most influential archaeological discoveries invite reflection about the role of Iraqi scientists.