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Guam’s forests are being slowly killed off – by a snake

  • Written by: Elizabeth Wandrag, Postdoctoral Fellow, Ecology, University of Canberra
imageGuam's trees are struggling without the birds that spread their seeds.Author provided

Can a snake bring down a forest? If we’re talking about the Pacific island of Guam, the answer may well be yes.

Our research adds to mounting evidence that the killing of many of the island’s bird species by an invasive species of snake is having...

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Truth to power: how podcasts are getting political

  • Written by: Siobhan McHugh, Senior Lecturer, Journalism, University of Wollongong

Podcasts are becoming a powerful socio-political force: from crime to social justice, they are changing the debate on some of the key issues of our times.

The Australian podcast The Messenger, which describes the life of a detainee on Manus Island, recently won a prestigious Grand Award at the 2017 New York Radio Festival. Bowraville, about the...

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Doctors, lawyers and ministers all take a professional pledge: here's why teachers should too

  • Written by: John Whelen, Associate Fellow, Faculty of Education, Monash University

What do these occasions have in common: a wedding, a witness about to give evidence in court, and a citizenship ceremony? All are public occasions, all require witnesses, and – most importantly – all require those at the centre of the occasion to make a vow, swear an oath, or make a binding pledge.

Such occasions are far more common...

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Why Google wants to think more like you and less like a machine

  • Written by: Geoff Goodhill, Professor of Neuroscience and Mathematics, The University of Queensland
imageAll those neurones: if only a machine could really think like a human.MriMan/shutterstock

What does this mean:

wht has Don Trm don nw?

You’ve probably decided the intended question is: “What has Donald Trump done now?”

But how did you reach that conclusion? The word fragments could be part of many different words. You even expanded...

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  4. Lasers and dung beetles: the 2017 Eureka Prizes celebrate the best of Australian science
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  14. Explainer: what is antifa, and where did it come from?
  15. Change Agents: Darren Kindleysides and Don Rothwell on how Australia briefly stopped Japanese whaling
  16. The Australian Greens at 25: fighting the same battles but still no breakthrough
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  18. Of mice and men: why animal trial results don’t always translate to humans
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  20. Why retailers want you to 'click and collect'
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