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Students branch out and climb trees to learn up close how to care for them and why they help cities flourish
Cities benefit from trees, which can cool concrete sprawls and improve air quality.
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The international legal order is broken: 2 key shifts needed to fix it
Most states know that without widely understood and accepted international laws and principles it would be harder to resolve their disagreements peacefully.
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Cracks in the International Space Station are causing air leaks – how much longer can it remain habitable?
A worsening leak on June 5 forced five crew members to prepare for an emergency evacuation.
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Caps are coming for domestic uni places, but the government also wants to grow student numbers. Can this work?
Federal Education Minister Jason Clare has introduced a bill under which universities face new caps on their domestic student numbers.
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85% of kids are still using social media despite ban. But we need a new measure to judge its success
The full effects of the ban may not be clear for a decade.
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We checked 2000 museum specimens and discovered a tiny new ‘ferocious’ Australian mammal
Using sophisticated genetic technology and 100-year-old museum specimens, we uncovered a new planigale species.
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What people with intersex traits want you to know
People born with variations of sex characteristics have bodies that are a little different to social and medical expectations.
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The military traded its flu vaccine mandate for ‘medical freedom’ – an outbreak quickly followed
Two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made the flu vaccine optional in the military, an outbreak leads several branches of the military to make it mandatory again.
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Maternity reviews have told us what is wrong – why are we still waiting for action?
Reviews have named the failures in maternity care. The urgent question is why the same problems keep returning.
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How ‘catchy’ music is driven by rhythmic patterns
Catchy rhythms like the tresillo are examples of how our musical perception and preference negotiate between simplicity and complexity.
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Are algorithms unfairly screening out immigrant job applications?
As AI becomes increasingly embedded in hiring, Canada needs to consider how opportunity is distributed once immigrants enter the labour market.
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China’s Dong minority: why we’re digitally recording and preserving their Indigenous architectural heritage
A new project uses cutting-edge digital technology to precord the architecture and culture of China’s Indigenous Dong minority.