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Whose best friend? How gender and stereotypes can shape our relationship with dogs

  • Written by: Paul McGreevy, Professor of Animal Behaviour and Animal Welfare Science, University of Sydney
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One man and his dog.
Pierre Malou, Author provided

The relationship between people and their dogs can be a lasting and loving bond if the match is right. But when acquiring a dog, how do you know if that match will be a good one?

Research shows there is a difference in the way some dogs react to men and women, and it can also matter if the dog is a...

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Plenty of fish in the sea? Not necessarily, as history shows

  • Written by: Anna Clark, Australian Research Council Future Fellow in Public History, University of Technology Sydney
imageErn McQuillan, Tuna Fishing at Eden, New South Wales, 1960.National Library of Australia

Australia has had tens of thousands of years of fisheries exploitation. That history reveals a staggering natural bounty, which has been alarmingly fragile without proper management. The current debate over the federal government’s new draft marine park...

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How we can overcome the lack of treatment options for rare cancers

  • Written by: Colman Taylor, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, The George Institute; Conjoint Senior Lecturer, UNSW; Owner and Director, Health Technology Analysts, University of Sydney
imageIt's hard to test therapies for rare cancers because there are too few people to study. from www.shutterstock.com.au

Rare cancers are just that: rare. This means research into each of these particular types of rare cancers is limited, and so are the treatment options. As a consequence, patients diagnosed with rare cancers face significant...

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How to work out which coral reefs will bleach, and which might be spared

  • Written by: Clothilde Emilie Langlais, research scientist at CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, CSIRO

Regional variations in sea surface temperature, related to seasons and El Niño, could be crucial for the survival of coral reefs, according to our new research. This suggests that we should be able to identify the reefs most at risk of mass bleaching, and those that are more likely to survive unscathed.

Healthy coral reefs support diverse...

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  2. The Great Australian Plays: Williamson, Hibberd and the better angels of our country's nature
  3. Mercury from the northern hemisphere is ending up in Australia
  4. After Charlottesville, how we define tolerance becomes a key question
  5. Drug resistance: how we keep track of whether antibiotics are being used responsibly
  6. Decoration or distraction: the aesthetics of classrooms matter, but learning matters more
  7. Shinzo Abe gambles on sending Japan to a snap election – but it may yet backfire
  8. If Australia says 'yes', churches are still free to say 'no' to marrying same-sex couples
  9. Why we should pay people to stop smoking
  10. From feral camels to 'cocaine hippos', large animals are rewilding the world
  11. I've always wondered: Why don't hippos get cholera?
  12. What happened to our promised leisure time? And will we find it in the smart city?
  13. Guide to the Classics: Dante’s Divine Comedy
  14. Three charts on: the great Australian wealth gap
  15. Sassy, zany and easy-going: the abundance of fun in digital help
  16. FactCheck: will Safe Schools be 'mandatory' if same-sex marriage is legalised?
  17. Ambae volcano's crater lakes make it a serious threat to Vanuatu
  18. Revealed today, Elon Musk's new space vision took us from Earth to Mars, and back home again
  19. Australian regulators have finally made a move on initial coin offerings
  20. Australia's new national space agency will help students reach for the stars in STEM
  21. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the government's not-so-new message on energy security
  22. 'No one is steering the ship': five lessons learned (or not) since the SA blackout
  23. What Twitter can learn from that time Coca Cola changed its formula
  24. The pathologies of populism
  25. The beautiful social media game: A-League winners and losers on Twitter
  26. Australia needs new insolvency laws to encourage small businesses
  27. Debris from the 2011 tsunami carried hundreds of species across the Pacific Ocean
  28. Googling for a new dentist or therapist? Here's how to look past the glowing testimonials
  29. Revenge porn laws may not be capturing the right people
  30. Friday essay: Dr Joe Gumbula, the ancestral chorus, and how we value Indigenous knowledges
  31. Dear diary: the Sun never set on the Arctic Mars simulation
  32. Initial Coin Offerings are disrupting how startups are funded - but what are they?
  33. Grattan on Friday: Careful, Mr Dutton, Donald Trump might hear you
  34. Research Check: will binge-watching TV increase your risk for Alzheimer's disease and diabetes?
  35. Hugh Hefner, Playboy, and being a man during the Cold War
  36. Cycling and politics: Australia’s World Road Championships selection controversy
  37. Full response from lead author of study exploring link between TV-viewing and death from inflammatory causes
  38. Five assumptions we make about North Korea – and why they're wrong
  39. Reach for the sky: why safety must rule as tall buildings aim higher
  40. Baby boomer women make up for lost study time and head back to university
  41. Unpacking sexually transmitted ethics
  42. A year since the SA blackout, who's winning the high-wattage power play?
  43. Gravitational Waves arrive in Europe
  44. From tourism to terrorists, fast-moving space industries create new ethical challenges
  45. Young Australians are engaged in political issues, but unsure how democracy works
  46. 'Bones' McGhie, a cigarette and nostalgia for a greater game
  47. We may survive the Anthropocene, but need to avoid a radioactive 'Plutocene'
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