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May 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christina N. Zdenek, Associate Researcher, The University of Queensland Scientists in the United States have created a new snake antivenom using the blood of a man who deliberately built up immunity to snakebites by injecting himself with many different kinds of venom more than 800 times over ... <a title="‘Super antibodies’ for snake toxins: how a dangerous DIY experiment helped scientists make a new antivenom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/03/super-antibodies-for-snake-toxins-how-a-dangerous-diy-experiment-helped-scientists-make-a-new-antivenom-255611/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Super antibodies’ for snake toxins: how a dangerous DIY experiment helped scientists make a new antivenom">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne With those who haven’t already cast a pre-poll vote ready to hit the polling places tomorrow, a final batch of polls give Labor a firm lead. The ... <a title="Final polls give Labor a clear lead before the election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/02/final-polls-give-labor-a-clear-lead-before-the-election-255724/" aria-label="Read more about Final polls give Labor a clear lead before the election">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As we roll into the dying hours of the election campaign, the polls are suggesting a Labor win, although it is not yet clear if it will be in minority or majority. Chief Political Correspondent Michelle Grattan and Politics Editor ... <a title="Culture wars and costings: election special podcast with Michelle Grattan and Amanda Dunn" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/02/culture-wars-and-costings-election-special-podcast-with-michelle-grattan-and-amanda-dunn-255774/" aria-label="Read more about Culture wars and costings: election special podcast with Michelle Grattan and Amanda Dunn">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Caitlyn Forster, Associate Lecturer, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney Death cap mushrooms (_Amanita phalloides_) Jolanda Aalbers/Shutterstock The world has been gripped by the case of Australian woman Erin Patterson, who was charged with the murder of three people after allegedly serving them a ... <a title="What is iNaturalist? The citizen science app playing an unlikely role in Erin Patterson’s mushroom murder trial" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/02/what-is-inaturalist-the-citizen-science-app-playing-an-unlikely-role-in-erin-pattersons-mushroom-murder-trial-255714/" aria-label="Read more about What is iNaturalist? The citizen science app playing an unlikely role in Erin Patterson’s mushroom murder trial">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrea Carson, 2024 Oxford University visiting research fellow RIJS; Professor of Political Communication., La Trobe University shutterstock JRdes/Shutterstock The spread of electoral misinformation and disinformation is undermining democracies around the world. The World Economic Forum has identified the proliferation of false content as the leading short-term global ... <a title="Fake news and the election campaign – how worried should voters be?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/02/fake-news-and-the-election-campaign-how-worried-should-voters-be-255514/" aria-label="Read more about Fake news and the election campaign – how worried should voters be?">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hassan Vally, Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the United States’ top public health official, recently claimed some religious groups avoid the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine because it contains “aborted fetus debris” and “DNA particles”. The US is facing its worst measles ... <a title="The MMR vaccine doesn’t contain ‘aborted fetus debris’, as RFK Jr has claimed. Here’s the science" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/02/the-mmr-vaccine-doesnt-contain-aborted-fetus-debris-as-rfk-jr-has-claimed-heres-the-science-255718/" aria-label="Read more about The MMR vaccine doesn’t contain ‘aborted fetus debris’, as RFK Jr has claimed. Here’s the science">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul McInerney, Senior Research Scientist in Ecosystem Ecology, CSIRO The native shrimp _Paratya australiensis_ was among the species found to incorporate carbon from natural gas into their bodies in the Condamine River. Chris Van Wyk/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND What’s the currency for all life on Earth? Carbon. Every ... <a title="Scientists surprised to discover mayflies and shrimp making their bodies out of ancient gas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/02/scientists-surprised-to-discover-mayflies-and-shrimp-making-their-bodies-out-of-ancient-gas-253334/" aria-label="Read more about Scientists surprised to discover mayflies and shrimp making their bodies out of ancient gas">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joanna Mendelssohn, Honorary Senior Fellow, School of Culture and Communication. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne Winner Packing Room Prize 2025, Abdul Abdullah ‘No mountain high enough’, oil on linen, 162.4 x 136.7cm © the artist, image © Art Gallery ... <a title="Archibald Packing Room Prize goes to Abdul Abdullah for Jason Phu portrait, among broader set of bold and deeply personal works" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/02/archibald-packing-room-prize-goes-to-abdul-abdullah-for-jason-phu-portrait-among-broader-set-of-bold-and-deeply-personal-works-253747/" aria-label="Read more about Archibald Packing Room Prize goes to Abdul Abdullah for Jason Phu portrait, among broader set of bold and deeply personal works">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Phoebe Hayman, PhD Candidate and Casual Academic in Politics, La Trobe University The impression of the Liberal Party as out of touch with women persists in this year’s election. The party’s “women problem” was brought into sharp focus by the backlash to its now-abandoned policy to stop ... <a title="The Liberals’ women problem may seem intractable, but here’s what they could learn from the Teals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/02/the-liberals-women-problem-may-seem-intractable-but-heres-what-they-could-learn-from-the-teals-254058/" aria-label="Read more about The Liberals’ women problem may seem intractable, but here’s what they could learn from the Teals">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Plum, Senior Research Fellow, Auckland University of Technology Andrey_Popov/Shutterstock If you own a business, would you be willing to hire a person who has been convicted for a crime? Give them a chance when a background check shows they have a criminal record? The answers matter ... <a title="This NZ law aims to give people with criminal convictions a ‘clean slate’. It’s not working" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/02/this-nz-law-aims-to-give-people-with-criminal-convictions-a-clean-slate-its-not-working-254687/" aria-label="Read more about This NZ law aims to give people with criminal convictions a ‘clean slate’. It’s not working">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claudia Sandberg, Senior Lecturer, Technology in Culture and Society, The University of Melbourne Foreign audiences often associate German cinema with tragedy, trauma and death. Certainly, major historical events such as the second world war and the Fall of the Berlin Wall — cornerstones of German film — ... <a title="Unexpected humour and reflections on a complex past: my top 5 films from the 2025 German Film Festival" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/02/unexpected-humour-and-reflections-on-a-complex-past-my-top-5-films-from-the-2025-german-film-festival-254788/" aria-label="Read more about Unexpected humour and reflections on a complex past: my top 5 films from the 2025 German Film Festival">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philippa Specker, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Refugee Trauma and Recovery Program, School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney PeopleImages.com – Yuri A/Shutterstock When Australia signed the United Nations 1951 Refugee Convention, it committed to providing protection to people who have fled war, persecution and human rights violations. Refugees ... <a title="Explainer: what mental health support do refugees and asylum seekers get in Australia?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/02/explainer-what-mental-health-support-do-refugees-and-asylum-seekers-get-in-australia-255427/" aria-label="Read more about Explainer: what mental health support do refugees and asylum seekers get in Australia?">Read more</a>
