The rise of Islamic State has led to much speculation about the group’s origins: how do we account for forces and events that paved the way for the emergence of the jihadist group?
Today, Aaron Hughes explains the amazing regional variation in Islamic practice to illustrate why Islamic State appeared where it did.
No religion is unified. How...
Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data impacting global economies.
This week: Minutes from the Reserve Bank of Australia, the last meeting of the US Federal Reserve; car sales in...
When the deadly Ebola virus struck West Africa last year, one thing that became clear was that the region lacked access to quick diagnostic tools that could help identify those infected and help contain the virus’s spread.
As the world swung into action to combat the emergency, one crucial factor that helped to curb the epidemic was the...
Chemistry is all around us.ShutterstockChemistry is the science of molecules: the basic building blocks of all known matter. In a way, this makes chemistry the science of everything.
Chemists have shown that all the substances around us – the Earth and indeed the universe as a whole – are composed of just 92 building blocks or elements...
In today’s fast-moving financial markets, many new and experienced traders wonder whether automated trading systems — often called trading robots, expert advisors (EAs), or algorithmic bots — can real...
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Physical retail is back and it’s booming. Shopping centres across Australia are preparing for one of the biggest Christmas and Boxing Day sale seasons on record, driven by strong consumer confidence...
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Agile Energy is now positioned to play a defining role in reducing energy costs for Australian businesses and fast-tracking the nation’s transformation into a globally competitive green economic pow...
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