Michelle Moo

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Sciences & Technology

Three ways we’re ‘making friends’ with robots

The rise of the machines has already evoked fears of robots taking over the world, but in reality the frontier of human-machine interaction is collaboration

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Health & Medicine

The unexpected gift of bones

A collection of leg bones at the Melbourne Dental School was originally intended to play a key role in forensic medicine, but unexpected discoveries along the way have opened up whole new areas of research from bone strength to ageing

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Politics & Society

The women doctors who fought to serve

When the Great War broke out, female doctors were famously told to “go home and sit still”. But a group of remarkable women refused.

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Politics & Society

Do what you love: Dispelling the myth

‘Do what you love’ is a modern myth that sets us up for great disappointment and exploitation, argues academic Miya Tokumitsu

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Arts & Culture

Bewitched and beguiled by art

Images of witches and witchcraft offer a glimpse into the fears and superstitions of the past

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Arts & Culture

Behind this cover lies a world treasure

A small and ornate book opens up to reveal one of the great masterpieces of Renaissance manuscript illumination

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