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How childhood trauma changes our hormones, and thus our mental health, into adulthood

  • Written by: Sarah Baracz, Associate lecturer, Macquarie University
imageEarly life trauma can affect our hormone systems for the rest of our lives. from www.shutterstock.com

Exposure to traumatic experiences in childhood can have a negative impact on the development of the brain when it’s most vulnerable. Cases of childhood maltreatment are more common than reported; conservative estimates show over 45,000 Austral...

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Wi-Fi can be KRACK-ed. Here's what to do next

  • Written by: David Glance, Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia
imageWPA2 has been cracked, so it's time to update your router.Ksander/Shutterstock

A security researcher has revealed serious flaws in the way that most contemporary Wi-Fi networks are secured.

Discovered by Mathy Vanhoef from the University of Leuven, the vulnerability affects the protocol “Wi-Fi Protected Access 2”. Otherwise known as...

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Australia's Human Rights Council election comes with a challenge to improve its domestic record

  • Written by: Amy Maguire, Senior Lecturer in International Law and Human Rights, University of Newcastle
imageAustralia’s campaign for a seat on the Human Rights Council opened it to further scrutiny of its record on such issues.Reuters/Denis Balibouse

Australia has been elected to a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council. It will serve on the council from 2018 to 2020.

The announcement overnight formalised an assumed result: Australia and Spa...

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Tropical thunderstorms are set to grow stronger as the world warms

  • Written by: Martin Singh, Lecturer, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University
imageA supercell thunderstorm in the US state of Oklahoma.Hamish Ramsay, Author provided

Thunderstorms are set to become more intense throughout the tropics and subtropics this century as a result of climate change, according to new research.

Thunderstorms are among nature’s most spectacular phenomena, producing lightning, heavy rainfall, and...

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  4. Three strategies to help students navigate dodgy online content
  5. City-by-city analysis shows our capitals aren’t liveable for many residents
  6. Decoding the music masterpieces: Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances
  7. At last, we've found gravitational waves from a collapsing pair of neutron stars
  8. After the alert: radio 'eyes' hunt the source of the gravitational waves
  9. We beat a cyber attack to see the 'kilonova' glow from a collapsing pair of neutron stars
  10. Subsidies for renewables will go under Malcolm Turnbull's power plan
  11. Middle-income earners probably won't be paying as much tax as the government expects
  12. Good data/bad data: ethically designed databases can help police without reducing privacy
  13. Is it too cheap to visit the 'priceless' Great Barrier Reef?
  14. We just Black matter: Australia's indifference to Aboriginal lives and land
  15. Taking the pulse of a city: Melbourne's Vital Signs
  16. Health Check: why are some people afraid of heights?
  17. Here’s how Australia can act to target racist behaviour online
  18. Filters: a cigarette engineering hoax that harms both smokers and the environment
  19. How marketers use algorithms to (try to) read your mind
  20. Expect a shakeup of China’s military elite at the 19th Party Congress
  21. How Melbourne's west was greened
  22. Noble horses and 'black monsters': the politics of colonial compassion
  23. More sightings of an endangered species don't always mean it's recovering
  24. Translation technology is useful, but should not replace learning languages
  25. Turnbull's ratings fall in another bad Newspoll
  26. Power bills can fall – but the main attention must be on affordability: ACCC
  27. Why Trump's decertification of the Iran nuclear deal may prove a costly mistake
  28. NSW ReachTEL: Coalition leads 52-48 as One Nation slumps. Xenophon tied or ahead in SA's Hartley
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  30. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the government reneging on a clean energy target
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