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Environment
Analysis
What AI data centres really mean for Australia's water supply
While viral claims about water use don't hold up, the real story is worth understanding. It comes down to where these centres are built, what water they use and how they report it
Health & Medicine
Analysis
Penalty shootouts aren't a lottery. So why do football coaches keep saying they are?
Every World Cup, coaches are quick to call penalty shootouts a lottery. A neuroscientist who has worked with elite coaches explains why they say it and how teams actually prepare
Environment
Analysis
What if our homes could move?
Flooding, displacement and housing insecurity are no longer distant issues. Houses that move with people are helping communities in Bangladesh adapt to a changing environment
Sciences & Technology
Analysis
How rocket launches could threaten Australia’s coastal wildlife
Blast waves, acoustic trauma and sonic booms pose serious, underexamined risks to the threatened species living near proposed launch sites like South Australia's Whalers Way
Arts & Culture
Analysis
The book that taught us to think of witches as women
Written in fury after a failed trial in 1485, the Malleus Maleficarum fuelled 150 years of witch hunts that shaped how Europe imagined, hunted and executed women
Sciences & Technology
Analysis
Bird flu has reached Australia. Here’s how you can help
The H5 bird flu virus has been detected in Australia for the first time, raising fears for wildlife, livestock and the nation's biosecurity. Here's what the experts say, and what you can do to help
Politics & Society
Analysis
Changing who owns houses, won’t fix how fast we can build them
Australia keeps reaching for tax reform to fix the housing crisis, but the 2026 Federal Budget still didn't tackle one of our biggest problems. What it missed was speed.
Sciences & Technology
Analysis
What is Godzilla El Niño?
The odds of a ‘monster El Niño’ developing this year are now as high as 80 per cent. But that is a risk factor not a definite forecast – a big El Niño does not necessarily mean a big dry for Australia
Politics & Society
Analysis
New Zealand is preventing climate justice by changing the rules at half time
Ahead of Mike Smith’s landmark case against New Zealand’s highest greenhouse gas emitters, new legislation may prevent any justice before a word is spoken