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Europe will benefit hugely from keeping global warming to 1.5°C

  • Written by: Andrew King, Climate Extremes Research Fellow, University of Melbourne

From heatwaves to intense rainfall and severe cold weather, Europe experiences its fair share of weather extremes.

In an open access study, published in Environmental Research Letters, David Karoly and I have found that without limiting global warming, Europe is likely to see even more severe heat, less frequent extreme cold, and more intense rain...

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Shakespeare's lost playhouse – now under a supermarket

  • Written by: Laurie Johnson, Associate Professor in English Literature and Cultural Studies, University of Southern Queensland
imageJohn Fead, Shakespeare and his contemporaries, 1851. Wikimedia

With its round amphitheatre, The Globe is the most famous playhouse associated with Shakespeare - indeed, a working, pop up replica of it is currently in Melbourne. But long before Shakespeare or his plays appeared at the Globe, another forgotten stage was the Bard’s temporary...

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The oil and gas sector needs to diversify if it wants to prosper

  • Written by: Jerad A. Ford, Manager - Strategic Advisory, CSIRO Futures, CSIRO
imageBusiness as usual is not an option.CSIRO/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY

One does not have to look far to see signs that the oil and gas industry has a bumpy road ahead. Demand might stay high for decades, but given the dizzying pace of technological change, who would bet on that?

Take the recent pledges by India, France, Britain, and China to phase out...

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Passion and pain: why secessionist movements rarely succeed

  • Written by: Damien Kingsbury, Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University
imageCatalans protest the Spanish government crackdown after voting for independence.Reuters/Yves Herman

Calls for “independence” have been increasingly heard on the streets of Barcelona in recent days. Those powerful emotions can drive people to extremes, which in some cases include killing and dying. Yet for the high price often paid,...

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