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Australia’s most diverse marsupial predators have been hiding their origins for millions of years
A handful of tiny fossil jaws fill a missing chapter in the evolutionary history of Australia’s most successful marsupial predators.
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Hybrid work blurs the line between work and home – here’s how couples can set boundaries
Setting clear expectations about availability, both at work and at home, is essential for couples negotiating professional careers and hybrid work.
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How to ensure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples benefit from newborn DNA screening
Biological samples and data from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have been misused in the past. So how would we make a new screening program safer?
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World Cup VAR controversies show why human referees should decide where potential fouls begin
Two overturned World Cup goals, in Argentina-Egypt and Norway-England, show that replay can reveal a foul, but only a referee can decide how far back the review should go.
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Yes, breathing wildfire smoke can harm your health – here’s what you can do to protect yourself
When you breathe in wildfire smoke, harmful particles can travel deep into your body.
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Despite claims smoking has made a comeback, just 5.6% of Australians now smoke daily
Smoking isn’t back. New data show Australia’s tobacco control laws are working.
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Backed into a corner by Iran over the Strait of Hormuz, Trump may resort to even more reckless escalation
The reality is there is no military pathway to opening the Strait of Hormuz. Trump may attempt to find one anyway.
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No evidence mobile phones cause brain cancer – new study
For one thing, there’d be a much higher rate of brain cancers in the decades since mobile phones were widely adopted.
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As extreme heat pummels the Tour de France, can cycling keep riders safe?
In extreme heat, the tour can provide extra shade, hydration during racing and even alter or cancel a stage. But is this enough?
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The data centre boom won’t mean higher power prices – if we unlock stalled renewable projects
Could we be thinking the wrong way about surging energy demand from data centres in Australia?
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Aboriginal people harvested this native grass for millennia. Scientists have now found an odd trait in its DNA
Natural selection may not be the only force that has contributed to the evolution of channel millet’s unusual genetics.
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How controlling (and tolling) a narrow waterway near ancient Troy changed history
Control of the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus strait was life and death for ancient Athens. Waterways are no less important – and contentious – today.