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The tiny microalgae behind South Australia’s harmful algal bloom is among the most toxic ever tested

Over the past 15 months, one of the country’s worst marine environmental disasters has been unfolding in South Australia.

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AI can’t replace mental health therapists. But here’s where it might make a difference

A person wakes in the middle of the night, overwhelmed and needing someone to talk to. But instead of calling a loved one or booking a counselling session, they open ChatGPT.

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More pharmacists will be able to vaccinate children under 5. Here’s what you need to know

More children under five years old should be able to be vaccinated in pharmacies from January 2027 under a range of measures designed to boost vaccine coverage announced in this year’s federal budget.

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Graham Platner’s campaign implosion highlights the hollowness of America’s political parties and how they can be hijacked by insurgents

It wasn’t a surprise, but it was a bombshell.

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Aboriginal title and land ownership is suddenly a hot topic in Canada — and won’t be settled anytime soon

Aboriginal title pertains to the rights Indigenous groups have to land. Fee simple title refers to the most common way individuals in Canada own land. How do these different forms of title interact?

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Many elite athletes live with health impacts long after they retire. Should they carry all the costs?

When former All Black Sonny Bill Williams spoke from hospital before his recent neck surgery, his message was not simply about pain. It was a warning to young athletes and their parents about the physical price that can come with a professional sporting career.

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Plutarch’s ancient advice for how to be happier online

For many centuries, the writings of Plutarch of Chaeronia (c.46-119CE) were at the heart of elite humanistic education in the West. We can see the influence of his Lives of Eminent Greeks and Romans and the philosophical essays in his work Moralia in early modern authors from Michel de Montaigne…

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Choosing your senior maths subjects? Here’s what to consider

Choosing a senior maths subject is truly like finding the Goldilocks option. Too difficult, and students may become overwhelmed and underperform. Too easy, and they may miss out on the challenge, preparation or assumed knowledge they require for their future career pathways. They need the subject that is just right.

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From The Godfather to Middlemarch: 8 of the most faithful adaptations ever

Adapting canonical literary classics into cinema is an inherently difficult task, as it requires walking a razor’s edge between remaining faithful to the text and translating it into another medium.

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Can you put a price on love? For those wanting an Australian partner visa, it’s $11,700

What price can you put on love? Many have been asking that question over the past week as the government increased the cost of applying for a partner visa by 25% overnight on July 1.

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Australians live longer than previous decades but spend more years in poorer health

A new snapshot of the nation’s health, released today by the Australian Institute Health and Welfare, shows Australians are living longer than in previous decades.

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Mental illness is up in young people, dementia is now the biggest killer: Australia’s health in 2026

Australians’ life expectancy has increased steadily over time but dropped during the COVID pandemic, according to a new report released today by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

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Cacti spines, snake fangs, snail love darts – oh my! How function drives the evolution of nature’s puncture tools

Most people probably aren’t thinking about the complexity of nature when they get stung by a bee or prick their thumb on a rose. They are probably just thinking, “Ouch, that hurts!”

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Fibreglass: How this emerging contaminant is polluting our coasts

Walk along British Columbia’s shorelines and you quickly notice the signs of human-made activities and marine industry: boats anchored and hauled out for repair in marinas, abandoned vessels, the smell of fresh paint, workers sanding hulls and stacks of fibreglass materials waiting to be used.

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The Great Wherever: an intriguing ghost story about the history of African American land in the US South

Time dilates for young children, Shannon Sanders writes in The Great Wherever, and also for ghosts. Ghosts can reclaim time in which to grieve, gossip and watch their earthly relatives in horror, pity and love. Sometimes the dead can bridge silences in family lineage too.

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Evil Dead Burn could breathe new life into a fragmented horror saga

The horror series Evil Dead, first brought to the screen in 1981 by director Sam Raimi, is in its healthiest state for decades. The 2023 film Evil Dead Rise was a financial success, and 2026 will prove to be a huge year for the franchise, with the release of new…

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How can you be tired yet wired? Blame your stone-age brain

The clock reads 2:13am. You are exhausted. Your eyes ache, your body feels heavy and the alarm is already beginning to loom over the night, yet your brain refuses to let go. Instead, thoughts arrive in waves. Did you send that email? What if you forgot something important? Perhaps now…

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Patrice Lawrence is the new children’s laureate – why she is the perfect pick in this moment of division

The children’s laureate is responsible for promoting reading and children’s literature, as well as celebrating creativity and storytelling. For the newly appointed children’s laureate, Patrice Lawrence, belonging will sit at the centre of her work.

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How AI and digital data shape our understanding of migration

When millions of people fled Ukraine following Russia’s invasion in 2022, governments and humanitarian organizations used mobile phone and online platform data to track movements and identify where support was needed.

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Iran ceasefire was always going to break – here’s why

Less than a month after a ceasefire was signed between the US and Iran, conflict has returned to the Middle East. The peace agreement Donald Trump signed at the palace of Versailles in France on June 18 – which he hailed as Iran’s “unconditional surrender” – is now, in the…

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‘Let the people judge me’: how Marine Le Pen and Nigel Farage learned a potent populist tactic from Donald Trump

The European populist right has been at the top of the political agenda in recent days.

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Russia’s nuclear strategy in Ukraine isn’t deterrence – it’s terror

For the third time in Russia’s war against Ukraine, it recently launched the nuclear-capable missile Oreshnik. This intermediate-range ballistic missile has been deployed against Ukrainian cities on two other notable occasions, striking Dnipro in November 2024 and Lviv in early 2026. In each of these launches, Vladimir Putin’s highly touted…

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Older adults are at risk in heat waves, but it’s not just age: How public systems and policies are failing them

Five years ago, British Columbia’s heat dome became one of the deadliest weather disasters in Canadian history.

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Iran’s environmental catastrophe has also wrecked its economy

For several decades, Iran has devoted substantial financial, institutional and political resources to military expansion. It has invested heavily in supporting its regional partners, as well as in pursuing geopolitical influence across the Middle East.

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Shahrnush Parsipur: Iran has lost one of its bravest and boldest literary voices

The death of the Iranian novelist and feminist writer at the age of 80 marks the loss of one of the most courageous and original voices in modern Persian literature. For more than five decades, Parsipur wrote women into spaces from which they had often been excluded: history, politics, spirituality…

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