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This is the second article in The Conversation’s series examining Australia’s cost of living crisis. Read the first article in the series here.

An estimated 3,000 pets were still missing more than a week after deadly wildfires ripped through Maui in August 2023 and left thousands of people – many of whom had companion animals – homeless. The Conversation asked Sarah DeYoung, who has conducted research in Hawaii and studies what happens to…

This article is part of The Conversation’s series examining Australia’s cost of living crisis.

Last year Earth had more than 100 close encounters with large asteroids. What are the odds of a direct hit in the near future?

BACK in May this year I found myself at an undisclosed military training base somewhere in Kyiv Oblast in Ukraine.

Google the words “Ukraine counteroffensive” and the adverb you will most commonly find associated with them is “slowly”. The popular misconception in the months leading up to the launch of Ukraine’s summer push was that, like last autumn’s lightning counter-attacks around Kherson in the south and Kharkiv in the north-east…

Welcome to our brand new series: Women’s Health Matters. At The Conversation, we believe in the power of knowledge to empower people. That’s why we’re excited to launch this new series and explore a wide range of women’s health topics, from the highs and lows of childbirth to the complexities…

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced $3 billion in incentives for states and territories and a boosted target for the number of homes to be built, in a package aimed at alleviating Australia’s housing crisis.

Physicists like me don't fully understand what makes up "dark matter." Deep beneath South Dakota, we're trying to change that.

How humanity responds to the first contact with intelligent alien life could determine the very fate of our species. Here's what we can learn from history.