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We found microplastics in hedgehogs – then we traced them back to pet food
Many hedgehogs have become reliant on human-provided food.
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In The Hand of Dante: a striking and ambitious cinematic fever dream
Mysterious, unwieldy and often captivating, Julian Schnabel’s film refuses easy categorisation.
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Free will: does refusing to believe in it make you a ‘bad’ person? Research is challenging this old idea
Research has found that when you manipulate people to doubt free will, bad things happen – including cheating and aggression. But does it hold up?
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Did Kenya’s Gen Z protests achieve anything? An economist weighs up what’s changed and what’s stayed the same
State spending has remained high despite public demands for greater fiscal discipline.
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Citizenship education: primary school children are already able to think politically
Children are already thinking about power and whose voices get heard.
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Helping their friends to read can boost children’s attainment
Children receive support from their partner throughout the session, with their teacher monitoring the interactions in the class.
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How high can a volcano throw lava up in the air?
Volcanologist Martin Mangler explains how volcanic eruptions work to push lava into the air. Listen on the The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast.
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The new Vegemite Kids has 50% less salt. No, that’s not ‘un-Australian’
Here’s what Vegemite Kids will mean for children’s total salt intake. Hint: not as much as you might think.
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Cheap, effective and dangerous: how Australian farmers came to depend on the toxic weedkiller paraquat
Paraquat is banned in dozens of countries – but this cheap imported herbicide is everywhere in Australia.
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View from The Hill: Longer NDIS inquiry is bad for the government, costing ‘a few hundred million dollars’
The government had little choice but to agree to the extension, which will take several hundred million off its projected savings.
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One Nation’s surge continues in polls as Andy Burnham set to become next UK PM
In polls taken partly after Pauline Hanson’s address at the National Press Club, her party’s vote has climbed further.
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Victoria claims to have stopped native logging. So why is it importing Tasmanian forests?
There’s no economic or environmental case for native logging. Yet taxpayer money is still being used to support it.