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Curious Kids: Do most volcanologists die from getting too close to volcanoes?

  • Written by Jozua van Otterloo, Assistant Lecturer in Volcanology, Monash University
imageVolcanologists often visit active volcanoes in order to observe eruptions and collect samples of lava and ash.Flickr/MONUSCO Photos, CC BY

This is an article from Curious Kids, a series for children. The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they’d like an expert to answer. All questions are welcome – serious, weird or wacky!

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Mungo Man returns home: there is still much he can teach us about ancient Australia

  • Written by Michael Westaway, Senior Research Fellow, Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University
imageMungo Man finally returns to where he was found in the Mungo National Park. Office of Environment and Heritage/J Spencer

The remains of the first known Australian, Mungo Man, today begin their return to the Willandra area of New South Wales, where they were discovered in 1974.

They’ll be accompanied by the remains of around 100 other...

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Time for a global agreement on minerals to fuel the clean energy transition

  • Written by Damien Giurco, Professor of Resource Futures, University of Technology Sydney

Representatives from around the world are meeting in Bonn this week to discuss progress towards the goals of the Paris climate agreement. A large part of this challenge involves rapidly scaling up the deployment of renewable energy, while curbing fossil fuel use – but little attention has been paid to the minerals that will be needed to...

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Three charts on: brain cancer in Australia

  • Written by Melinda Tea, Research Associate, Centre for Cancer Biology, University of South Australia
imageAll brain tumours are associated with significant sickness and death, even if they are benign.from shutterstock.com

While survival rates for most cancers continue to improve in Australia, brain cancers aren’t seeing the same success. Australians diagnosed with brain cancer had around a 25% chance of surviving for five years from 2009 to 2013....

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  1. Rembrandt, capitalism and great art: the Dutch golden age comes to Sydney
  2. A city that forgets about human connections has lost its way
  3. Shorten goes for broke in byelection with mega stakes for Turnbull
  4. Four reasons Victorian MPs say 'no' to assisted dying, and why they're misleading
  5. The Trans-Pacific Partnership is back: experts respond
  6. Newspoll 55-45 to Labor as Turnbull's better PM lead falls to 2. Qld and Alabama polling
  7. As China flexes its muscles in Antarctica, science is the best diplomatic tool on the frozen continent
  8. Book review: Curing Affluenza takes aim at our all-consuming passions
  9. Australia's tenuous place in the new global economy
  10. Here’s looking at: Pipilotti Rist, Ever Is Over All
  11. What is the best way to respond to the Rohingya crisis: boycott, sanctions or engagement?
  12. Shorten recruits Keneally for Bennelong, as citizenship crisis claims Lambie
  13. Teaching kids 21st century skills early will help prepare them for their future
  14. High energy costs make vulnerable households reluctant to use air conditioning: study
  15. Honey Birdette and the changing attitudes to sex in advertising
  16. Living rooms for rent by the minute outsource the whole idea of home
  17. Demand for people skills is growing faster than demand for STEM skills
  18. Four factors driving the price of Bitcoin
  19. How Victoria's family violence system fails some victims – by assuming they're perpetrators
  20. From 'Leb bread' to 'Leb Kelly', finally we're seeing more Middle Eastern faces on TV
  21. Did they mean to do that? Accident and intent in an octopuses' garden
  22. Violence between residents in nursing homes can lead to death and demands our attention
  23. Alexander Dugin, Eurasianism, and the American election
  24. At APEC, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping revealed different ideas of Asia's economic future
  25. Fossil fuel emissions hit record high after unexpected growth: Global Carbon Budget 2017
  26. Twitter analysis shows Queensland Labor has put Adani behind them
  27. Hanson loses replacement senator – before he is even sworn in
  28. What we can learn from the Warren Buffett of the web
  29. With One Nation on the march, a change to compulsory voting might backfire on Labor
  30. Simon Leys, navigator between worlds – a unique Australian intellectual
  31. Cups, lingerie and home-made pads: what are the reusable options for managing your period?
  32. Cormann and Shorten reach deal on citizenship disclosure
  33. Hemp can now be sold as a food in Australia (and it's super good for you)
  34. The gender pay gap is wider in the arts than in other industries
  35. Why big projects like the Adani coal mine won't transform regional Queensland
  36. Small potent doses of illegal drugs are evading authorities but having a huge impact
  37. Portable units and temporary leases free up vacant land for urgent housing needs
  38. What causes breast cancer in women? What we know, don't know and suspect
  39. 'Successful failures' – the problem with food banks
  40. Support for standardised tests boils down to beliefs about who benefits from it
  41. Three ways robots can save lives in war
  42. Labor increases Newspoll lead to 55-45% as Shorten moves within striking distance as better PM
  43. Undecided Queensland voters disillusioned with Palaszczuk, suspicious of Nicholls
  44. Coalition loses majority after Alexander resigns. Qld polling and preferences
  45. From Public Confessions to Public Trials: The Complexities of the Weinstein Effect
  46. Extreme right Alabama Senate candidate accused of sexual encounter with 14-y/o girl
  47. Liberal John Alexander likely to quit imminently
  48. Explainer: what exactly is a living wage?
  49. Why has BHP distanced itself from legal threat to environment groups?
  50. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the never-ending citizenship crisis

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