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Detecting drought from space
Open Forum | October 22, 2024Combining a number of observation techniques, including orbital observation, can help detect signs of drought in threatened habitats such as Brazil’s once verdant Amazon basin.
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Amplifying the echo chamber
Open Forum | October 22, 2024Elon Musk’s changes to the way Twitter works has increased its vulnerability to manipulation by individuals and groups pushing extreme political ideologies.
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After the rain
Open Forum | October 22, 2024Researchers from the University of Adelaide, University of Melbourne, Australian National University and One Basin CRC will soon pilot a new strategy for assessing the risk climate change poses to water resources.
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Trump v Harris in the Pacific
Henryk Szadziewski | October 21, 2024As the democratic world holds its breath for the result of the US election, how do the two candidates view America’s role in the Pacific?
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Gambling fast and slow
Matthew Rockloff | October 21, 2024Just as there is ‘slow’ and ‘fast’ thinking, so there are ‘slow’ and ‘fast’ ways to gamble and, unsurprisingly, it’s the adrenaline hits delivered by poker machines and sports betting which are most likely to lead gamblers into trouble.
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The Red Emperor
Robert Wihtol | October 21, 2024The Red Emperor offers an eye-opening portrait of Xi Jinping, the man who rules as an absolute dictator over the lives of 1.4 billion people and the second largest economy on earth.
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The Starship revolution
Malcolm Davis | October 20, 2024SpaceX took a big step towards full reusability of space launchers on 13 October, a step towards a transformation in accessing space far more cheaply and frequently with substantial payloads.
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Virtual solutions to real tourist problems?
Nansy Kouroupi | October 20, 2024The internet and the latest digital tools are providing new opportunities and approaches to the sustainable management of tourism.
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Tourist traps
Frank Zou | October 19, 2024A decade after short-term tourist rentals debuted down under, the changes to tourist towns can be broken down to the good, the bad and the ugly.
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Let’s arm Ukraine
Alex Bristow | October 19, 2024The long-overdue announcement that Australia will give 49 surplus M1A1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine is welcome and should be followed by larger and more regular deliveries of arms to help drive out the Russian invaders.
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Won’t let the phones go down on me
Open Forum | October 19, 2024Australia is taking proactive steps to enhance the resilience of its telecommunications sector, according to a new report from The Australian National University.
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Under the ice
Open Forum | October 18, 2024Dusty ice exposed at the surface of Mars could provide the conditions necessary for the presence of photosynthetic life, according to a new modelling study
