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Australia’s new consent campaign gets a lot right. But consent education won’t be enough to stop sexual violence
Buried kelp: seaweed carried to the deep sea stores more carbon than we thought
Curious Kids: why can some plastics be recycled but others can’t?
Why a new ruling on the law of the sea and climate change matters for Australia and especially our island neighbours
Heavy water: how melting ice sheets and pumped groundwater can lower local sea levels – and boost them elsewhere
What OpenAI’s deal with News Corp means for journalism (and for you)
Why knock down all public housing towers when retrofit can sometimes be better?
Peter Dutton wants to cut migration for the sake of housing. Here’s why that’s not a good idea
What is ‘Net Zero’, anyway? A short history of a monumental concept
A rare find in ancient Timorese mud may rewrite the history of human settlement in Australasia
Infected blood scandal: government has promised compensation but will justice really be done?
‘No one can act with impunity’: ICC arrest warrants in Israel-Hamas war are a major test for international justice
How three tenacious reefs can help restore global oyster populations
People with dementia aren’t currently eligible for voluntary assisted dying. Should they be?
A pest of our own making: revealing the true origins of the not-so-German cockroach
Threatened species have declined 2% a year since 2000. Nature positive? Far from it
Cameras reveal wombat burrows can be safe havens after fire and waterholes after rain
We mapped a lost branch of the Nile River – which may be the key to a longstanding mystery of the pyramids
Investigating social media harm is a good idea, but parliament is about to see how complicated it is to fix
Cancer is increasingly survivable – but it shouldn’t depend on your ability to ‘wrangle’ the health system
Stirring films made the Snowy scheme a nationbuilding project. Could the troubled Snowy 2.0 do the same?
Floating robots reveal just how much airborne dust fertilises the Southern Ocean – a key climate ‘shock absorber’
A student’s visa has been cancelled for links to ‘weapons of mass destruction’. What’s going on with Australian research security?
Why are auroras so hard to predict? And when can we expect more?
How a long-lost fish species was brought back to Bendigo
What causes the different colours of the aurora? An expert explains the electric rainbow
What is it about Gaza? Wars are raging around the world, so why are young people so passionate about this one?
Indigenous women are most affected by domestic violence but have struggled to be heard. It’s time we listened
High Court dismisses key challenge to indefinite immigration detention. What does it mean?
Monash University Professor awarded prestigious research fellowship to support Gunaikurnai archaeological discoveries
From Fringe to Fame: New book interrogates countercultures shaping popular culture
Women in rich countries are having fewer kids, or none at all. What’s going on?
Launch of new Queensland-based research and manufacturing hub targeting precision medicines
Have We Underestimated How Climate Change Drives Extreme Rain And Floods?
Should we fight climate change by re-engineering life itself?
Not all ultra-processed foods are bad for your health, whatever you might have heard
Paris in spring, Bali in winter. How ‘bucket lists’ help cancer patients handle life and death
Heat is coming for our crops. We have to make them ready
The government wanted to avoid an inquiry into its deportation bill. Given the findings, it’s easy to see why
Senate report on lobbying passes the buck on improving transparency or legislation
UQ hub to enable new range of precision cancer treatments
Many people are feeling ecological grief. How can we help those whose work puts them at risk?
J G Russell Award set to help talented early career researchers
First Nations imprisonment is already at a record high. Unless government policy changes, it will only get worse
How a filmmaker, a pile of old shells and a bunch of amateurs are bringing our oyster reefs back
This group rid one Australian river of its privet problem – and strengthened community along the way
Making merry: how we brought Melbourne’s Merri Creek back from pollution, neglect and weeds
Hundreds of cities have achieved zero road deaths in a year. Here’s how they did it