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New museum find shows nature can’t stop inventing seahorses

At first glance it looks exactly like a seahorse. It has the same horse-shaped head tilted down from the body, the same curled and grasping tail, and in the males a fully enclosed pouch for brooding the young.

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Will a new ‘Good Samaritan’ law really reduce drug overdose fatalities?

Deaths from illegal drug use – particularly from opioid abuse – are a global problem, and New Zealand is far from immune. Roughly three New Zealanders die from accidental overdoses every week – that’s 1,295 people since 2016.

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Rocketman Gosling, a porn star documentary and creepypasta nightmares: what to stream in August

Looking for your next binge? This month’s streaming picks span galaxies, high school hallways, and creepy online worlds.

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Birds messing up your garden mulch? Why I’d think twice before reaching for the mulch glue

I love my garden mulch and I love the way birds forage in it.

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How many packs of Pokémon cards do you have to buy to catch ’em all? Probably hundreds, and most will be quite boring

Pokémon turns 30 this year. Beginning life as a video game which spawned a wildly successful trading card game and an anime series, the franchise – based around collecting an assortment of fanciful “pocket monsters” – has become an inescapable piece of the world’s pop-culture furniture.

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Good things take time – but new research suggests mindfulness can make the wait easier

Ask someone if they’d rather take $5 today or $10 next week and they’ll know which option is better.

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Families say they are struggling to pay school fees – why are so many still choosing private schools?

This month, multiple news outlets have reported families’ concerns about rising private school costs during the cost-of-living crisis.

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Change or die: how the Liberal Party’s long resistance to reform has left it fighting for life

The Liberal Party of Australia has fallen on hard times. The party has struggled to attract voters and has gone through leadership uncertainty. In his first press conference as leader in February 2026, Angus Taylor said that his party needed to “change or die”.

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Why the census won’t ask about intersex variations, and the reason it should

On Tuesday August 11, the Australian census will ask specific questions about gender identity and sexual orientation for the first time. It will also amend the previous wording about a person’s sex, which conflated sex and gender, to “sex recorded at birth”.

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For the first time, the census will ask your sexual orientation. My new study shows why it matters

When Australians complete the census on August 11, they’ll face a new question that’s been a long time coming.

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From flushing our toilets to building new schools, this is why filling in your census form matters

Do you want your toilet to reliably flush, whether you’re at home or on holiday anywhere in Australia? Want to help shape decisions on where new schools get built? Or want people experiencing homelessness to get better services than they do now?

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South Africa’s privacy laws are evolving, but vulnerable people are being left behind

Imagine receiving a message from your bank about suspicious activity on your account, only to discover that someone has accessed your personal information after an organisation you trusted suffered a data breach. Or finding that your medical records or identity details have been exposed online without your knowledge. As more…

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Young Nigerian women want to go into politics – party rules and older men keep them out

Nigerians will return to the polls in 2027. Campaigns will commence, crowds will fill the streets for party rallies, but the most consequential decisions about the elections are already happening. They are taking place in party offices, at the homes of powerful political godfathers, and in selection processes that most…

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Election misinformation spreads faster than facts can be checked: 3 insights from Kenya’s experience

Kenya went into its general election in August 2022 with one of the continent’s most developed networks for countering false information.

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Africa shaped the global 2030 development agenda. How it can influence what comes next

All United Nations member states adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015. They cover poverty, health, education, inequality, climate change, peace and other global issues. The goals are now approaching their 2030 deadline.

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FIFA and Infantino face an uncertain future as leading soccer nations fight for change

After one of the most turbulent and controversial few days in the history of world soccer, the future of FIFA and its leader Gianni Infantino are under intense scrutiny.

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The warning signs are over: Australia now faces a devastating bird flu outbreak in wildlife

The spread of H5N1 birdflu is worsening.

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What is Genocost? Understanding Congo’s new language of remembrance and justice

On August 2, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) commemorates Genocost Day, a national day of remembrance dedicated to the millions of victims of the violence that has affected the country since the outbreak of the First Congo War in 1996. First promoted by Congolese civil society in 2013,…

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Does Saudi Arabia want to develop nuclear weapons? Here’s what history can tell us

The US-Saudi nuclear deal was announced in the midst of what has, as of 2026, become America’s Third Gulf War. The news broke just as Saudi Arabia and the US launched air raids against Iranian-backed Iraqi militias, in retaliation for alleged drone attacks directed Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities.

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How the Ceuta border crossing incident immediately played into the hands of Spain’s far right

It is estimated that more than 50,000 migrants crossed entered the small Spanish enclave of Ceuta in the course of a single day after the border effectively collapsed. Ceuta, an autonomous city, sits on Morocco’s northern coast. The Spanish government has said almost all of the migrants have since returned…

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Why Arbaeen – the Shiite Muslim pilgrimage of mourning – has a deep significance that brings millions to Iraq each year

Every year, millions of pilgrims walk from the deserts of southern Iraq to the holy city of Karbala for Arbaeen, one of the largest annual pilgrimages in the world. In 2026, pilgrims will converge on Karbala on Aug. 5.

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Clickgate: what cricket cheating scandal reveals about the nebulous ‘spirit’ of the game

Cricket, by some metrics the world’s second most popular sport, has a penchant for producing rather peculiar scandals. UK-Australian relations were put under significant strain over the way that Harold Larwood, a coal miner from Nottinghamshire who could hurl cricket balls at batters very quickly, bowled at Don Bradman and…

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How grief tech is reimagining Victorian spiritualism

Modern spiritualism began as a religious movement in the 19th century. It promised to bring the living and dead together in conversation, usually through a medium – a person who claimed an ability to directly contact the deceased.

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How your conscious and unconscious mind interact

Have you ever heard the phrase “you only use 10% of your brain”? In reality, there is no way of measuring the percentage terms of consciousness – partly because the brain has no static baseline.

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