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Plastic planet
Open Forum | April 29, 2024An international team of researchers has found that more than half of branded plastic pollution in the environment is linked to just 56 companies.
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Filling in the blanks
Neil Sipe | April 28, 2024The housing crisis created by Australia’s high rate of immigration mean that governments and developers are eying every square inch of under-used land in our cities, but plans for ‘in-fill’ development are often slow to materialise in reality.
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The political thought of Xi Jinping
John West | April 28, 2024Like Vladimir Putin in Russia, Xi Jinping has established himself as China’s absolute dictator but his policies of internal repression and external aggression are motivated by ideology as well as personal power and nationalism.
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The great art robbery
Oliver Bown | April 28, 2024AI threatens to replace real human artists, just as machines have replaced people in a host of other activities, but AI models were trained on artists’ works without permission or payment.
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Palaeo-conservation
Lachlan Gilbert | April 27, 2024Novel rewilding projects by scientists, ecologists and conservationists could give hope to critically endangered animals around the world fresh hope of survival.
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The end of the ice
Annie Foppert | April 27, 2024In 1897, the former whaling ship RV Belgica left Antwerp in Belgium on first voyage of what would become known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration. As so many ships before, it became trapped in polar ice, at a location which is now open water.
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The war on women
Danielle Cave | April 27, 2024A spate of murderous attacks on women around Australia has heightened calls for the Australian government to establish a Royal Commission into gender-based violence.
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Science needs to tell its story
Peter Doherty | April 26, 2024In one sense, Trump has done the world of intellectual inquiry a service: He is forcing those fighting disinformation to engage on a much broader front than just relying on critical thinking and a respect for evidence.
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America alone
John West | April 26, 2024America’s foreign policy has always been a battleground between isolationist and internationalist forces, according to Charles Kupchan. The tussle continues to this very day, and could intensify if Donald Trump wins the next US Presidential election.
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Universities face a cash crunch
Anthony Welch | April 26, 2024Government plans to reduce the number of overseas students are forcing the Australian universities which have come to depend on their fees to contemplate opening more branches abroad.
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The dress and the rabbit
Alan Stevenson | April 25, 2024Optical illusions and ambiguous pictures are more than parlour puzzles but can open our eyes to the scientific study of human perception and the role our brains play in shaping what we think we see.
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Robots on the reef
Open Forum | April 25, 2024QUT researchers have developed a robot to capture images of baby tank-grown corals destined for the Great Barrier Reef. The system will help keep the growing corals happy and healthy before they are deployed and save researchers thousands of hours of coral counting time.
