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Life frozen in time under an electron microscope gets a Nobel Prize

  • Written by: Xavier Conlan, Senior Lecturer Forensic Chemistry, Deakin University
imageThe electron microscope’s resolution has radically improved in the last few years, from mostly showing shapeless blobs (left) in 2013 to now being able to visualise proteins at atomic resolution (right) in the present.Martin Högbom/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

The scientists who developed the ability to see some of the building...

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Alternative facts do exist: beliefs, lies and politics

  • Written by: Lochlan Morrissey, Research Associate, Griffith University
imageThe status of facts and their use in politics hasn’t changed as a result of Donald Trump’s election.Reuters/Joshua Roberts

This piece is republished with permission from Perils of Populism, the 57th edition of Griffith Review. Articles are a little longer than most published on The Conversation, presenting an in-depth analysis of the...

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Two puppeteers walk into a Japanese bathhouse in The Dark Inn

  • Written by: William Peterson, Senior Lecturer in Drama, Flinders University
imageThe four rooms of a Japanese ryokan revealed in The Dark Inn. Shinsuke Sugino

The darkness of the human condition, where people are enslaved by their own desires in a kind of Buddhist hell, may not seem like a pleasant subject for an evening of theatre. But in The Dark Inn, Japan’s brilliant playwright-director Kuro Tanino and his company,...

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Politics podcast: Darren Chester on the infrastructure spending spree

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Jokes about the satirical program Utopia aside, managing the rollout of infrastructure programs in Australia is a formidable task.

Infrastructure Minister Darren Chester says there is too much hyper-partisanship in Australian politics. “I think that the tone of debate in Australia has deteriorated in recent years and we’ve shown...

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  1. Europe will benefit hugely from keeping global warming to 1.5°C
  2. Shakespeare's lost playhouse – now under a supermarket
  3. The oil and gas sector needs to diversify if it wants to prosper
  4. Passion and pain: why secessionist movements rarely succeed
  5. Room sharing is the new flat sharing
  6. Error correcting the things that go wrong at the quantum computing scale
  7. Dissociative identity disorder exists and is the result of childhood trauma
  8. How refugees overcome the odds to become entrepreneurs
  9. When it comes to the NBN, we keep having the same conversations over and over
  10. Is faster profit growth essential for a pick-up in wages growth?
  11. Children can decide their medical treatments under Victoria’s unique advance directive laws
  12. Australia's $1 billion loan to Adani is ripe for a High Court challenge
  13. Why are we still pursuing the Adani Carmichael mine?
  14. First act of the family law review should be using research we already have
  15. Australian household electricity prices may be 25% higher than official reports
  16. For whom the bell tolls: cats kill more than a million Australian birds every day
  17. Beyond sanctions: a diplomatic path to peace on the Korean Peninsula
  18. Driverless vehicles could bring out the best – or worst – in our cities by transforming land use
  19. Curious Kids: How do satellites get back to Earth?
  20. From beards to best friends, it's time to give 'fag hags' their badge of honour
  21. Should you be 'nudged' into better health without you even knowing?
  22. Why Australia doesn't need to match the Trump tax cuts
  23. An award with real gravity: how gravitational waves attracted a Nobel Prize
  24. Qld ReachTEL: One Nation prefs help LNP to 52-48 lead; 57.5% nationally have returned SSM form
  25. Turnbull proposes tougher security measures
  26. Nearly six-in-ten people already voted in marriage ballot: ABS
  27. Magpies can form friendships with people – here's how
  28. People diagnosed with the same mental illness can be quite different, and research must address this
  29. The philosopher who was too hot for Playboy
  30. Price still up in the air as gas producers sign supply deal
  31. Circadian rhythm Nobel: what they discovered and why it matters
  32. Straight from the athlete's mouth: Australia's sports media landscape could be set for a shake-up
  33. Catalans and Kurds have a long battle ahead for true independence
  34. As Spain represses Catalonia's show of independence, the rest of Europe watches on nervously
  35. Stuck in traffic: we need a smarter approach to congestion than building more roads
  36. Sharing the parenting duties could be key to marital bliss: study
  37. Whose best friend? How gender and stereotypes can shape our relationship with dogs
  38. Plenty of fish in the sea? Not necessarily, as history shows
  39. How we can overcome the lack of treatment options for rare cancers
  40. How to work out which coral reefs will bleach, and which might be spared
  41. How can we prevent financial abuse of the elderly?
  42. The Great Australian Plays: Williamson, Hibberd and the better angels of our country's nature
  43. Mercury from the northern hemisphere is ending up in Australia
  44. After Charlottesville, how we define tolerance becomes a key question
  45. Drug resistance: how we keep track of whether antibiotics are being used responsibly
  46. Decoration or distraction: the aesthetics of classrooms matter, but learning matters more
  47. Shinzo Abe gambles on sending Japan to a snap election – but it may yet backfire
  48. If Australia says 'yes', churches are still free to say 'no' to marrying same-sex couples
  49. Why we should pay people to stop smoking
  50. From feral camels to 'cocaine hippos', large animals are rewilding the world

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