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How diseases can be targeted using nanotechnology – and why it's difficult

  • Written by: Mattias Björnmalm, Marie Curie Research Fellow, Imperial College London
imageNew ways to prepare and test nanoengineered particles are helping us understand how they can target diseases.ACS

Scientists are designing materials that are a thousand times smaller than the width of a hair.

Known as nanomaterials or nanoparticles, some could help treat diseases.

However, the engineering of particles for biomedical applications...

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My favourite album: Kate Bush's Hounds of Love

  • Written by: David McCooey, Professor of Writing and Literature, Deakin University
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The album is an artistic statement, a swag of songs greater than the sum of its parts. In a new series, our authors nominate their favourites.

Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love (1985) was the first album I heard on CD. With its use of the Fairlight CMI (a digital synthesizer/sampler workstation), digital reverb, and drum machines, it was perhaps...

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New Zealand elections: Māori seats once again focus of debate

  • Written by: Rawiri Taonui, Proessor of Indigenous Studies, Massey University
imageFollowing the last elections in 2014, New Zealand's parliament had 26 Māori MPs spread across five political parties.from www.shutterstock.com, CC BY-ND

As New Zealand heads into a general election in two weeks, the role of its seven Māori seats is a focus of debate.

The seats are a distinctive feature of the New Zealand parliament. Every...

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A medically supervised injection facility matters for Victoria – and for more inclusive mental health support

  • Written by: Ben O'Mara, Adjunct Research Fellow, Swinburne University of Technology

The report from the parliamentary inquiry into a pilot medically-supervised injecting centre in Victoria has been released, and it has failed to make a definitive statement recommending the establishment of a centre in North Richmond.

The Victorian government has said it hasn’t changed its stance against an injecting room, despite the report...

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  1. Alcohol increases cancer risk, but don't trust the booze industry to give you the facts straight
  2. The postal survey is both bizarre and typical in the history of Western marriage
  3. The true cost of keeping the Liddell power plant open
  4. Friday essay: why libraries can and must change
  5. The Handmaid's Tale and counting sperm: are fertility rates actually declining?
  6. How to stop businesses stealing from their employees
  7. Police want to read encrypted messages, but they already have significant power to access our data
  8. How the NDIS is using the market to create housing for people with disability
  9. For long-term improvements, schools need to slow down
  10. Grattan on Friday – Turnbull's rush for an energy 'announceable' sows confusion
  11. Grief, loss, and a glimmer of hope: Josephine Wilson wins the 2017 Miles Franklin prize for Extinctions
  12. What would it take to raise Australian productivity growth?
  13. APRA needs to protect whistleblowers in the CBA inquiry
  14. The off-topic Conversation #135
  15. High Court dismisses challenge, so Australia is off to the (postal) polls on same-sex marriage
  16. High Court gives go-ahead for marriage ballot
  17. Remembering Rhonda Senbergs: friend, art-world insider, unsung star
  18. Assassination by pacemaker: Australia needs to do more to regulate internet-connected medical devices
  19. Taking control of who gets to send us news
  20. FactCheck: are children 'better off' with a mother and father than with same-sex parents?
  21. Just ten MPs represent more than 600 threatened species in their electorates
  22. When it comes to North Korea, China is happy to make Trump squirm
  23. How the 'tyranny of distance' affects the Australian economy
  24. Poisoned water holes: the legal dangers of dark web policing
  25. We need a radical rethink of how to attract more teachers to rural schools
  26. People take to their bikes when we make it safer and easier for them
  27. Medical schools are shaking off a dark past by honouring people who donate their bodies to science
  28. Heart-warming, biting, tragic, funny: the Miles Franklin shortlist will move you
  29. Tony Abbott: Consider burqa ban in places dedicated to Australian values
  30. Coal and the Coalition: the policy knot that still won't untie
  31. Are you part of a social group? Making sure you are will improve your health
  32. The day Australia was put on blackout alert
  33. The beauty and mystery of Saturn's rings revealed by the Cassini mission
  34. In spite of their differences, Jews, Christians and Muslims worship the same God
  35. Australians may well love their sport, but why don't we delight in success elsewhere?
  36. The Conversation launches in Indonesia
  37. AMP Foundation's zipline challenge supports science at The Conversation
  38. Western Australians don't really want a 'WAxit', they just want a little love
  39. Can 'cli-fi' actually make a difference? A climate scientist's perspective
  40. It's too hard to get the data of Australian criminals when it's stored overseas
  41. Technology in the classroom can improve primary mathematics
  42. Seven ways to protect your pets in an emergency
  43. Why we remember our youth as one big hedonistic party
  44. Curious Kids: Why do our brains freak us out with scary dreams?
  45. We Live Here: how do residents feel about public housing redevelopment?
  46. Explainer: how international competition affects how much you earn
  47. AGL rejects Turnbull call to keep operating Liddell coal-fired power station
  48. Newspoll 53-47 to Labor, but Turnbull's better PM lead blows out
  49. What Cassini's mission revealed about Saturn's known and newly discovered moons
  50. What 'sniffer' planes can tell us about North Korea's nuclear tests

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