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Are we getting tired of superheroes? The evidence might surprise you

Superheroes are having a bumpy ride. Marvel, which gave the world Spider-Man and Captain America, is reeling from a string of disappointing film releases such as 2023’s The Marvels and 2025’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps. This has forced owners Disney to completely rethink their Marvel strategy just before the…

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Agatha Christie: what made the world’s bestselling author so successful? Here’s a clue

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Agatha Christie (1890-1976). The event itself, on January 12, was marked by a flurry of media coverage across the world, and academic experts were sought for comment. The chief question being: why is Christie the bestselling author of all time?

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Which of your climate actions make the biggest difference? Here’s how to find out

Go vegan, ditch the car, avoid air travel. Or forget all that – because it’s corporations and governments that are really to blame. This argument can feel quite paralysing but what if this is the wrong debate to be having?

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Do carrots really improve your night vision? 6 enduring diet myths, debunked

One of science’s main roles in society is to probe extraordinary claims, separate fact from fiction, and set the record straight. But it does not always succeed. Indeed, sometimes the exact opposite happens.

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The bogs of war: landscapes play a huge part in conflict – and restoring them can strengthen security

As geopolitical tensions rise and climate-related risks intensify, Europe is rethinking how it handles security on multiple fronts. One idea being developed relates to how nature and restoring landscapes can play a role in strengthening national resilience.

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Art in exile on show at London’s Iranian Contemporary Art Biennale

With Iran’s official cultural presence on the international stage increasingly uncertain, the 6th Iranian Contemporary Art Biennale in London, With My Roots, carries significance that extends well beyond the gallery walls.

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Europe needs 10 million homes and net-zero buildings by 2040. Here are four ways it could happen

Europe is staring at a dual crisis it hasn’t managed to solve. House prices across Europe have risen 60 percent and rents 30 percent over the past 15 years, while the number of building permits has fallen 20 percent. The European Investment Bank estimates the EU currently needs 2.25 million…

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Who were the American mothers to France’s orphaned children during the First World War?

During the entire course of World War I, approximately 25,000 American women crossed the Atlantic Ocean to attend to the needs of wounded soldiers and civilian communities in Europe. Women traditionally operated in medical units and helped care for wounded soldiers. Following US entry in the conflict, the newly established…

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AI is making journalistic language more repetitive and predictable – and it’s a problem for all of us

What happens to language when a growing amount of text published in the press, online and on social media is written by machines? This question is not just important for the profession of journalism – it also has an impact on the richness of the language we all use to…

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Central Africa’s wild meat dilemma: why outright bans threaten food security for millions

Millions of people in central Africa rely on wild meat for their nutrition, especially in rural areas around the Congo rainforest, the second largest tropical rainforest in the world. Here, meat from domestic animals is scarce due to poor national transport infrastructure, livestock diseases and lack of forage. As a…

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What ‘biodegradable’ packaging really means – and 3 key questions to ask about it

“Biodegradable” has become one of the most reassuring words in modern packaging. It appears on coffee cups, shopping bags and food containers, implying a promise: this product is better for the environment because nature will eventually take care of it.

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One Nation targets Liberal frontbencher Andrew Hastie over role in Ben Roberts-Smith affair

Liberal frontbencher Andrew Hastie has become a special target for One Nation over his willingness to give evidence against Victoria Cross winner Ben Roberts-Smith, who has been charged with five counts of the war crime of murder.

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Trump can’t sell the Abraham Accords on a Middle East that has lost trust in the US

As the US and Iran try to come to terms on a peace deal to end their months-long war, US President Donald Trump this week has introduced a new demand – that other countries in the Middle East sign on to his Abraham Accords, normalising relations with Israel.

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Deep-rooted inequalities are driving the latest diphtheria outbreak. But we can fix them

The current diphtheria outbreak – which has spread across four Australian states and possibly claimed one man’s life – may seem unexpected.

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Guide to the classics: Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World pioneered speculative fiction, 400 years ago

The Blazing World is a testament to how far the written novel has travelled in the past 400 years. A literary time capsule, it holds within it the origins of a genre we now call speculative fiction.

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Scientists have scrapped the worst-case climate scenario – because action is making a difference

When major new climate change scenarios are released, there’s always strong interest. These scenarios lay out what our future climate will look like, depending on how fast we act to cut emissions.

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Interest rates look set to hold, after inflation and fuel costs fell in April. But it’s unlikely to last

Inflation actually fell in Australia last month, thanks to temporary government fuel discounts that saw fuel prices come down by 7% from their record peaks in March.

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Metal fans love rebels – until they’re queer. Caleb Shomo’s coming out exposes deep hypocrisy

On May 23, Caleb Shomo, lead singer of American rock/metalcore band Beartooth, publicly came out in an Instagram post as a “proudly gay man”.

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Special poll has Labor barely winning majority as One Nation continues to gain

A special Redbridge poll that was mostly taken before the federal budget had Labor winning 76 of the 150 House of Representatives seats (a majority of one), with One Nation on 53 and the Coalition 12.

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Why do I wake up so tired after vivid dreams?

Some mornings when you wake up, your head is fuzzy, your body is heavy, and you don’t feel rested. It felt like you were dreaming all night.

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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Keith Wolahan on when Liberals should preference One Nation

The Liberal Party is now “fighting for its existence”, according to one of its own former federal MPs.

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World’s largest study of child sexual abuse perpetrators reveals why they abuse

Warning: this article contains distressing quotes from perpetrators of child sexual abuse.

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Patricia Cornwell survived her parents’ breakdown, psychosis and neglect by creating her own worlds

In 1976, Patsy Daniels, an English major at Davidson College in North Carolina wrote her first book. An autobiographical novel describing a fraught childhood and adolescence, it was never published. In 1990, Patsy, now identifying as Patricia Daniels Cornwell, wrote a forensic thriller, Postmortem, introducing medical examiner Dr Kay Scarpetta…

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A ‘supereruption’ transformed NZ 350,000 years ago. We now know how it happened

Some 350,000 years ago, the centre of New Zealand’s North Island appeared much different than the mountainous, scrub-covered landscape it is today.

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Planes, trains and pandemics: Lessons from COVID-19 about travel risks posed by hantavirus and Ebola

International travel volumes have now fully recovered from the downturn during the COVID-19 pandemic. With the upcoming World Cup poised to drive a surge in Canadian tourism, recent hantavirus and Ebola virus outbreaks remind us of the need to effectively manage travel-related public health risks in a world on the…

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