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GM crops: to ban or not to ban? That’s not the question
A government-commissioned report estimated that South Australia’s ban on genetically modified crops cost canola growers A$33 million since 2004.
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Curious Kids: why do we cry?
Most people cry when they’re feeling sad, or when they are having big feelings.
Poor housing leaves its mark on our mental health for years to come
The damaging effects of housing disadvantage on people’s mental health can persist even years after their housing situation improves.
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From Star Wars to Apocalypse Now, director’s cuts are all the rage. But do they make the films any better?
Is this self-indulgence or part of the artistic process?
Southeast Asia was crowded with archaic human groups long before we turned up
The ancestral population of modern humans appears to have split as it moved across Asia.
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Peter Dutton is whipping up fear on the medevac law, but it defies logic and compassion
The medevac law was passed to streamline the process for emergency medical evacuation of refugees from Manus Island and Nauru.
A giant species of trilobite inhabited Australian waters half a billion years ago
A fossil of the giant new trilobite species Redlichia rex.
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NASA and space tourists might be in our future but first we need to decide who can launch from Australia
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, US, May 2019.
Fixing Australia’s extinction crisis means thinking bigger than individual species
The endangered Cumberland Plain Woodland is an ecological community that have shrunk to 6% of their original area.
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