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Curious Kids: Do astronauts get space sick when they travel from Earth to the International Space Station?

  • Written by Kevin Orrman-Rossiter, PhD Research Student, History & Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne
imageFlight Engineer Peggy Whitson suits up ahead of a spacewalk. Vomiting inside a spacesuit during a spacewalk could be fatal for astronauts.NASA, 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,...

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Money can't buy me love, but you can put a price on a tree

  • Written by Heather Keith, Research Fellow in Ecology, Australian National University
imageMountain ash in the Victorian Central Highlands. Takver/Flickr, CC BY-SA

What is something worth? How do you put a dollar value on something like a river, a forest or a reef? When one report announces that the Great Barrier Reef is worth A$56 billion, and another that it’s effectively priceless, what does it mean and can they be reconciled?

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Some states do better than others on affordable housing – we can learn from the successes

  • Written by Steven Rowley, Director, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, Curtin Research Centre, Curtin University
imageThe Living Space development in Cockburn, Western Australia, has won praise as an innovative mixed-use social housing project.Courtesy of HHA Projects

Doing something about improving housing affordability, particularly for people on low and moderate incomes, is difficult for Australian politicians. The core of the problem is simple: until those...

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Australian consumer law is failing beer drinkers

  • Written by Dan Jerker B. Svantesson, Co-Director Centre for Commercial Law, Bond University
imageDo you know where your beer comes from?Shutterstock

If you’ve bought a “foreign” beer lately you might have noticed it wasn’t actually brewed in the country associated with the brand. Instead, it may have been brewed “under supervision of” or “under license from” the original creator, often using...

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  1. Government's energy plan still under wraps while Abbott shouts his from afar
  2. Marriage ballot participation rate passes Irish referendum
  3. The chemicals in firefighting foam aren't the new asbestos
  4. The Great Barrier Reef can repair itself, with a little help from science
  5. Despite the charged atmosphere, Frydenberg and Finkel have the same goal for electricity
  6. Dove, real beauty and the racist history of skin whitening
  7. As China prepares for its Communist Party Congress, what will it mean for the rest of the world?
  8. Blade Runner's problem with women remains unsolved in its sequel
  9. Slashing penalty rates: a misguided response to problems of the past
  10. Grandparents must be included in decisions about children in out-of-home care
  11. Classical Indian dance meets contemporary in Rising
  12. How to talk to your child about suicide
  13. Explainer: how our understanding of risk is changing
  14. Do trauma victims really repress memories and can therapy induce false memories?
  15. Northern exposure: fossils of a southern whale found for the first time in the north
  16. Competitive tendering hasn't delivered for public transport, so why reward poor performance?
  17. Construction industry loophole leaves home buyers facing higher energy bills
  18. Warwick Thornton's Sweet Country: a tragic investigation of race on Australia's frontier
  19. High stakes for Turnbull government as High Court hears MPs' citizenship cases
  20. What should Australian companies be doing right now to protect our privacy
  21. How Melbourne activists launched a campaign for nuclear disarmament and won a Nobel prize
  22. Caravan delivers a glimpse of women on the edge with sweet comedy
  23. Weekly Dose: from laughing parties to whipped cream, nitrous oxide's on the rise as a recreational drug
  24. Tony Abbott, once the 'climate weathervane', has long since rusted stuck
  25. To keep heatwaves at bay, aged care residents deserve better quality homes
  26. The off-topic Conversation #138
  27. After the storm: how political attacks on renewables elevates attention paid to climate change
  28. El Niño in the Pacific has an impact on dolphins over in Western Australia
  29. Five things senators (and everyone else) should know about changes to HELP debts
  30. The Hanson effect: how hate seeps in and damages us all
  31. Old sites, new visions: art and archaeology collide in Cyprus
  32. Digital media are changing the face of buildings, and urban policy needs to change with them
  33. Ten questions you should ask before sharing data about your customers
  34. Science or Snake Oil: do men need sperm health supplements?
  35. Whatever happened to the 15-hour workweek?
  36. Why is the US trying to shut down Russian security company Kaspersky Lab?
  37. No chance of US gun control despite Las Vegas massacre; NZ left gains two seats after special votes
  38. Nick Xenophon set to go back to where he came from
  39. What the Nobel Prize tells us about the state of economics
  40. Revenge served cold: was Scott of the Antarctic sabotaged by his angry deputy?
  41. Nobel-winner Kazuo Ishiguro shows us the illusion of connection with the world
  42. The reality of living with 50℃ temperatures in our major cities
  43. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the toughened terrorism laws
  44. Explainer: why is Western Australia fighting with miners over gold royalties?
  45. Ancestry, storytelling, and fighting racism with rap
  46. Taylor Mac makes history at Melbourne Festival opening
  47. Let's face it, we'll be no safer with a national facial recognition database
  48. Xenophon's shock resignation from Senate to run for state seat
  49. Research Check: can ‘Lightning Process’ coaching program help youths with chronic fatigue?
  50. Tom Petty died from a cardiac arrest – what makes this different to a heart attack and heart failure?

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