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City-by-city analysis shows our capitals aren’t liveable for many residents

  • Written by: Billie Giles-Corti, Director, Urban Futures Enabling Capability Platform and Director, Healthy Liveable Cities Group, RMIT University

This article is one in a series, Healthy Liveable Cities, in the lead-up to the Designing Healthy Liveable Cities Conference in Melbourne on October 19 and 20.

We know what makes for healthy and liveable communities, which in turn produces massive payoffs. But we often lack comprehensive policies and frameworks to deliver on the promise. In...

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Decoding the music masterpieces: Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances

  • Written by: Scott Davie, Lecturer in Piano, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney
imageBoris Kustodiev, The Bolshevik, 1920Wikimedia

The 1917 Russian Revolution was, to many, a calamitous social and ideological experiment on an unprecedented scale. As the centenary of the event is marked this year, it is perhaps revealing to note its effects on a personal level. At the time, Sergei Rachmaninoff was in his mid-forties, a successful...

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At last, we've found gravitational waves from a collapsing pair of neutron stars

  • Written by: David Blair, Director, WA Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, and the Australian International Gravitational Research Centre, University of Western Australia
imageArtist's impression of the collision of two neutron stars, the source of the latest gravitational waves detected.National Science Foundation/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet, Author provided

After weeks of rumour and speculation, scientists have today finally announced the death spiral of two neutron stars as a source of gravitational...

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After the alert: radio 'eyes' hunt the source of the gravitational waves

  • Written by: Tara Murphy, Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow, University of Sydney
imageThe Australia Telescope Compact Array in Narrabri, NSW.David Smyth/CSIRO, Author provided

At 11:21pm Sydney time on Thursday August 17, 2017, an alert on a private email list informed thousands of astronomers worldwide that the Advanced LIGO-Virgo interferometer had detected another gravitational wave event.

But this time it wasn’t from a...

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  1. We beat a cyber attack to see the 'kilonova' glow from a collapsing pair of neutron stars
  2. Subsidies for renewables will go under Malcolm Turnbull's power plan
  3. Middle-income earners probably won't be paying as much tax as the government expects
  4. Good data/bad data: ethically designed databases can help police without reducing privacy
  5. Is it too cheap to visit the 'priceless' Great Barrier Reef?
  6. We just Black matter: Australia's indifference to Aboriginal lives and land
  7. Taking the pulse of a city: Melbourne's Vital Signs
  8. Health Check: why are some people afraid of heights?
  9. Here’s how Australia can act to target racist behaviour online
  10. Filters: a cigarette engineering hoax that harms both smokers and the environment
  11. How marketers use algorithms to (try to) read your mind
  12. Expect a shakeup of China’s military elite at the 19th Party Congress
  13. How Melbourne's west was greened
  14. Noble horses and 'black monsters': the politics of colonial compassion
  15. More sightings of an endangered species don't always mean it's recovering
  16. Translation technology is useful, but should not replace learning languages
  17. Turnbull's ratings fall in another bad Newspoll
  18. Power bills can fall – but the main attention must be on affordability: ACCC
  19. Why Trump's decertification of the Iran nuclear deal may prove a costly mistake
  20. NSW ReachTEL: Coalition leads 52-48 as One Nation slumps. Xenophon tied or ahead in SA's Hartley
  21. Shorten promises $1 billion fund to finance manufacturing enterprises
  22. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the government reneging on a clean energy target
  23. #LstTxt Tstmnt: an unsent text message can count as a will, in the right circumstances
  24. Research suggests Tony Abbott's climate views are welcome in the Hunter Valley
  25. As the Clean Energy Target fizzles, what might replace it?
  26. Changes to lure young people into private health insurance won't slow increase in premiums
  27. What the Harvey Weinstein case tells us about sexual assault disclosure
  28. Satellites are giving us a commanding view of Earth's carbon cycle
  29. A matter of trust: the checks and balances schools must have to ensure fair funding for disability
  30. Psychology holds key to getting people out before disaster strikes
  31. Friday essay: the cultural meanings of wild horses
  32. Three areas to reform federal-state financial relations
  33. Vital Signs: the spooky mortgage risk signs our bankers are ignoring
  34. How the Liberals can fix their gender problem
  35. Don't ignore the mobility scooter. It may just be the future of transport
  36. My child has glue ear – what do I do?
  37. Grattan on Friday: Turnbull close to finalising energy package but can he sell it?
  38. This is what our cities need to do to be truly liveable for all
  39. Democratising super would bring more independent voices to the negotiating table
  40. Looking into their computer-generated eyes: dating in virtual reality
  41. Black Lives Matter is a revolutionary peace movement
  42. I've always wondered: why your nose runs when it's cold
  43. Video explainer: at China's 19th National Party Congress, Xi's vision and legacy are at stake
  44. Weighing up lab-grown steak: the problems with eating meat are not Silicon Valley's to solve
  45. Health Check: does drinking alcohol kill the germs it comes into contact with?
  46. Picturing the unimaginable: a new look at the wreck of the Batavia
  47. Australia's species need an independent champion
  48. Eight simple changes to our neighbourhoods can help us age well
  49. Three charts on: disability discrimination in the workplace
  50. New research reveals the origin of Australia’s extinct flightless giants, the mihirung birds

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