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UN blues
Anil Anand | November 20, 2024The 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly comes at a time when trust in the rules-based international system, capitalism, and democracy has waned dangerously low. Middle powers like Canada and Australia, with proven legitimacy and exemplary records for multilateral cooperation on security and human rights challenges, must therefore do more to redouble support for multilateralism.
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The years of salt
Open Forum | November 20, 2024Reducing the amount of hidden salt in Australia’s processed food could help save thousands of lives a year, according to a new report in a medical journal.
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Skiing downhill
Ruby Olsson | November 20, 2024Australia’s snow seasons are getting shorter, the nations’ snow cover is decreasing and Australian ski resorts may be forced to shut if the current level of climate change continues.
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On the road to Gundag
Susan Sheldrick | November 19, 2024AI is already used throughout rural communities from precision agriculture to self-driving trucks. But we need to help regional small businesses benefit from AI while avoiding the harmful aspects.
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Australia’s “next-gen” engineers
Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas | November 19, 2024Engineering’s future is not just about training more and more recruits to fill the current shortage, so universities must also focus on the qualities of our next-gen engineers.
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Back from the bush
Open Forum | November 19, 2024Most bushrangers are best known from semi-fictional accounts written decades after their deaths, but a new book uncovers a few that told their own stories.
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Sleep on it
Dan Denis | November 18, 2024John Steinbeck once observed that “It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it” and modern research suggests he was right.
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Detecting fake news with AI
Magda Osman | November 18, 2024Fake news detection systems can combine AI and insights from behavioural science to flag fake news content, but could also create problems of their own.
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Ancient tips for older people
Konstantine Panegyres | November 18, 2024The Ancient Greeks and Romans had a lot to say about longevity and good health and much of it remains true today.
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Cod in a log
Open Forum | November 17, 2024Researchers are trialling the use of artificial ‘cod logs’ to create new nesting habitats for the endangered Mary River cod in Queensland.
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Goin’ South
Open Forum | November 17, 2024Modern researchers have found evidence that a Polynesian settlement on the northernmost of the Auckland Islands was inhabited for almost a century between 1250 and 1320 AD.
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Musclebound
Open Forum | November 17, 2024Adolescent boys and young men are increasingly resorting to the dangerous use of anabolic steroids to achieve the muscular build idealised on social media according to a new study by Flinders University reseachers.
