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Health & Medicine

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Australia needs a national brain health strategy

Neurological disorders are now the leading cause of disability worldwide, but Australia has no coordinated national strategy to protect the health of our most vital organ

Politics & Society

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Opinion

Human remixes pay creatives, AI just pays shareholders

Generative AI is built on the work of humans but these creatives are rarely remunerated. If we don’t protect them now, entire categories of labour risk being obliterated

Politics & Society

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Analysis

A fairer world without destroying the planet? It's possible

Imagine a future where everyone has enough, on a planet that stays liveable. A new report makes a compelling case it's within reach

Arts & Culture

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Opinion

Three thousand years old and Homer's Odyssey is still travelling

Christopher Nolan's film is the latest of countless retellings – in opera, poetry, comics and video games. And the epic's own history is as complicated as its hero's voyage

Environment

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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

Environment

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Research

As flood risk grows, underinsurance could become Australia’s least visible climate problem

More homes than ever are being mapped into flood zones, but many households are dropping their cover. New research points to a confusing system, not complacent homeowners

Health & Medicine

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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

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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

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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

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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